Richmond Palace Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Richmond upon Thames local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 2000. Garden wall.
Richmond Palace Wall
- WRENN ID
- fallow-hearth-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Richmond upon Thames
- Constituency
- Richmond Park MP: Sarah Olney (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 2000
- Type
- Garden wall
- OS grid reference
- TQ 175 748
- Coordinates
- 51.4605, -0.30901
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Richmond Palace Wall is a garden wall built in the early 16th century, specifically between 1498 and 1501 for Henry VII. It originally separated the Privy Garden and Privy Orchard of Richmond Palace. The wall is constructed of red-brown brick in English bond and stands approximately 4.5 meters high. It features chamfered brick coping above courses of dentil and dog-tooth brickwork. There are likely 20th-century inserted round-arched and square-headed openings that are now blocked. The wall was raised by 2.3 meters in 1938-1939 using stock brick and includes crenellations. The southern end of the wall is a separate build with a different alignment, made of brown brick, some of which is in Flemish bond and has been repaired. The northern end is obscured behind a lean-to garden building at a break in the 16th-century walling.
Local climate
Richmond Palace Wall sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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