Asgill House near Old Palace Lane in Richmond - panoramio

Old Palace Lane is a street in

Richmond Richmond most often refers to: * Richmond, British Columbia, a city in Canada * Richmond, California, a city in the United States * Richmond, London, a town in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, England * Richmond, North Yorkshire, a town ...

in the

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, running westwards off

Richmond Green Richmond Green is a recreation area near the centre of Richmond, London, Richmond, a town of about 20,000 inhabitants situated in south-west London. Owned by the Crown Estate, it is leased to the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. The Gree ...

down towards the

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. It takes its name from the historic

Richmond Palace Richmond Palace was a Tudor royal residence on the River Thames in England which stood in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Situated in what was then rural Surrey, it lay upstream and on the opposite bank from the Palace of Westminste ...

, constructed during the reign of Henry VII and demolished during the 1650s. The

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villa Asgill House was built in the 1760s at the river end of the street. In the 1840s the

viaduct A viaduct is a specific type of bridge that consists of a series of arches, piers or columns supporting a long elevated railway or road. Typically a viaduct connects two points of roughly equal elevation, allowing direct overpass across a wide ...

approach to the new

Richmond Railway Bridge Richmond Railway Bridge in Richmond, south-west London, crosses the River Thames immediately upstream of Twickenham Bridge. It carries National Rail services operated by South Western Railway (SWR) on the Waterloo to Reading Line, and lies bet ...

was built just to the north of the Lane. Beyond it is

Old Deer Park Old Deer Park is an area of open space within Richmond, London, Richmond, owned by the Crown Estate, in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, England. It covers of which are leased as sports grounds for sports, particularly rugby, gol ...

and the A316 road approach to

Twickenham Bridge Twickenham Bridge crosses the River Thames in southwest London, England. Built in 1933 as part of the newly constructed "Chertsey Arterial Road", the bridge connects the Old Deer Park district of Richmond (historically Surrey) on the south bank ...

. Several buildings in the street are now

Grade II listed In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural or historic interest deserving of special protection. Such buildings are placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, H ...

while Asgill House is Grade I listed. Old Palace Yard (the former Great Courtyard of Richmond Palace, and known as Wardrobe Court until 1838) is a curving street running off Old Palace Lane and connecting it with Richmond Green.Nairn, Pevsner & Cherry p.438 It contains the only main surviving structure from the former palace, its Tudor

gatehouse A gatehouse is a type of fortified gateway, an entry control point building, enclosing or accompanying a gateway for a town, religious house, castle, manor house, or other fortification building of importance. Gatehouses are typically the most ...

, which is at the entrance with the Green. Also in the Yard is

The Trumpeters' House Trumpeters' House is a Grade I listed building in Richmond in southwest London. It is located in Old Palace Yard close to Richmond Green on the site of the former Richmond Palace. A brick mansion, it was constructed during the reign of Queen A ...

, an early eighteenth-century house which is now Grade I listed.

References

Bibliography

* Nairn, Ian; Pevsner, Nikolaus; Cherry, Bridget. ''Surrey''.

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, 2002. . * Members of the

Richmond Local History Society Richmond is a town in south-west London,The London Government Act 1963 (c.33) (as amended) categorises the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames as an Outer London borough. Although it is on both sides of the River Thames, the Boundary Commis ...

(Fourth edition). ''The Streets of Richmond and Kew''. Richmond Local History Society, 2022. . * Robinson, Derek; Fowler, Simon (Second edition). ''Old Palace Lane: Medieval to Modern Richmond''. Richmond Local History Society and

Museum of Richmond The Museum of Richmond in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames is located in Richmond's Old Town Hall, close to Richmond Bridge. It was formally opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 28 October 1988. An independent museum and a register ...

, 2020. . Streets in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames Richmond, London Old Palace Lane {{coord missing, London