Privy Garden is a Grade I listed building in the Richmond upon Thames local planning authority area, England. A Post-Medieval Garden.
Privy Garden
- WRENN ID
- vast-flagstone-plum
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Richmond upon Thames
- Constituency
- Twickenham MP: Munira Wilson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Garden
- Period
- Post-Medieval
- Address
- Privy Garden, Hampton Court
- OS grid reference
- TQ 157 681
- Coordinates
- 51.40098, -0.33744
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Privy Garden at Hampton Court features late 17th century screens designed by Tijou at the south end, along with associated walls. The railings consist of 12 wrought-iron panels created by Tijou, showcasing intricate scrollwork, carbouches, grotesque faces, swags, and inset panels with various motifs including thistles, monograms, roses, harps, and others. These panels are flanked by openwork piers topped with crowns. Originally intended for the Fountain Garden, they were erected in the Privy Garden in 1701, removed to the Victoria and Albert Museum in the mid-19th century, and restored in 1902.
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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