Privy Garden is a Grade II listed building in the Richmond upon Thames local planning authority area, England. Garden.
Privy Garden
- WRENN ID
- mired-parapet-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Richmond upon Thames
- Constituency
- Twickenham MP: Munira Wilson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Garden
- Address
- Privy Garden, Hampton Court
- OS grid reference
- TQ 157 682
- Coordinates
- 51.40143, -0.33729
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Privy Garden at Hampton Court is a structure of uncertain date, possibly from the 17th century. It features a bronze figure of a naked female, known as the Medici Venus, accompanied by a dolphin beside which two winged putti are climbing. The figure stands on a base made of Portland stone.
Local climate
Privy Garden sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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