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Greenhouses to visit in the United Kingdom

The Verrière atlas lists 152 greenhouses in the United Kingdom, built between 1738 and 2026.

The country that invented the modern greenhouse. Kew's Palm House (1844–1848) set the iron-and-glass vocabulary later copied worldwide, and the neighbouring Temperate House is still the largest surviving Victorian glasshouse. Belfast, Glasgow and Liverpool keep their own glass palaces, while the turn of the millennium brought the Eden Project in Cornwall and the Great Glasshouse in Wales.

152Greenhouses
1738Oldest — Camellia House, Wentworth Woodhouse
2026Newest — Pudsey Park Glasshouse (The Really Wild Café)
142Cities
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England (22)

1774 · 1760

Orangery and glasshouses, Norton Conyers Walled Garden

🇬🇧 Norton Conyers, near Ripon (North Yorkshire), England
A Grade II orangery at the centre of an 18th-century walled garden, flanked by two glasshouses: one fully glazed, the other partly.
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Soane's Pinery-Vinery Glasshouse, Wimpole Walled Garden, Wimpole Estate, Arrington (Cambridgeshire), England
1790 · 1999

Soane's Pinery-Vinery Glasshouse, Wimpole Walled Garden

🇬🇧 Wimpole Estate, Arrington (Cambridgeshire), England
A pineapple-and-vine house designed by Soane in the 1790s, badly damaged by a bomb in 1941 and rebuilt in 1999.
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Peach House and Vinery, Greenway Walled Gardens, Greenway, Galmpton, near Brixham (Devon), England
1791 · 1839

Peach House and Vinery, Greenway Walled Gardens

🇬🇧 Greenway, Galmpton, near Brixham (Devon), England
A 120 ft peach house, one of the longest in Devon, and a restored heated vinery in the walled gardens of Agatha Christie's holiday home.
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1802 · 1993

Victorian Glasshouse in the walled garden at Staunton Farm (Staunton Country Park)

🇬🇧 Havant (Hampshire), England
In a walled garden built before 1833, a tropical glasshouse billed as the largest on the South Coast, with coconut palms, bananas and a giant water lily.
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Glasshouses of the Walled Gardens at Croome Court, Croome D'Abitot (Worcestershire), England
1805 · 2025

Glasshouses of the Walled Gardens at Croome Court

🇬🇧 Croome D'Abitot (Worcestershire), England
A Georgian walled garden whose fig, melon, tomato and pineapple houses have been brought back since 2000, with their heating tunnels.
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Quarry Bank curvilinear glasshouse, Quarry Bank, Styal (Wilmslow), Cheshire, England
1820 · 2017

Quarry Bank curvilinear glasshouse

🇬🇧 Quarry Bank, Styal (Wilmslow), Cheshire, England
One of the earliest surviving curvilinear iron glasshouses, restored by 2017 with over 7,500 hand-made panes.
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Victorian Walled Garden Glasshouses, Quex Gardens, Quex House and Gardens, Birchington-on-Sea (Kent), England
1840 · 1890

Victorian Walled Garden Glasshouses, Quex Gardens

🇬🇧 Quex House and Gardens, Birchington-on-Sea (Kent), England
A range of Victorian glasshouses, from a rare cucumber pit to vine and orchid houses, made by Weeks of Chelsea and Mackenzie & Moncur.
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The Orangery, Bitton House (Teignmouth Orangery), Teignmouth (Devon), England
1842 · 1985

The Orangery, Bitton House (Teignmouth Orangery)

🇬🇧 Teignmouth (Devon), England
A 1842 orangery threatened with demolition in 1979, restored in 1985 and looked after ever since by a friends' association.
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The Vinery, Arley Hall (kitchen garden forcing house), Arley Hall & Gardens, Aston by Budworth, near Northwich, Cheshire, England
1872 · 1850

The Vinery, Arley Hall (kitchen garden forcing house)

🇬🇧 Arley Hall & Gardens, Aston by Budworth, near Northwich, Cheshire, England
A Grade II listed vinery against the Arley Hall kitchen garden, where fig trees, passion flowers and the cafe's tomatoes grow together.
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Kitchen Garden glasshouses (Vinery and Melon House), Kingston Lacy, Pamphill, near Wimborne Minster (Dorset), England
1876–1879

Kitchen Garden glasshouses (Vinery and Melon House), Kingston Lacy

🇬🇧 Pamphill, near Wimborne Minster (Dorset), England
A Victorian vinery, from a range of glasshouses first built in 1879, rebuilt on a new timber frame in a restored kitchen garden.
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Sefton Park Palm House, Sefton Park, Liverpool, England
1896

Sefton Park Palm House

🇬🇧 Sefton Park, Liverpool, England
Given to Liverpool by a benefactor in 1896, this iron glasshouse had its glass blown out by a bomb during the 1941 Blitz.
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1911

Luton Hoo Walled Garden glasshouses

🇬🇧 Luton Hoo Estate, near Luton (Bedfordshire), England
Grade II listed glasshouses, the largest built for the Wernhers, being brought back by volunteers inside an octagonal walled garden.
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1952

Palm House, Stanmer Park (Sussex Butterfly Gardens)

🇬🇧 Stanmer Park, Brighton and Hove, England
A 1952 Palm House by Hartleys, one of the last three of its kind in England, turned into a tropical butterfly garden in May 2026.
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Barbican Conservatory, London, England
1984

Barbican Conservatory

🇬🇧 London, England
An indoor rainforest perched on level 3 of the Barbican, built to wrap around the theatre's fly tower.
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2000 · 2017

Display House and alpine glasshouses, Holehird Gardens

🇬🇧 Holehird Gardens, Patterdale Road, Windermere, Cumbria, England
Volunteer-run glasshouses in the Lake District: a Display House of 2017 kept at 5 °C minimum and an alpine house built in 2000.
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The Glasshouse, Jephson Gardens, Jephson Gardens, Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England
2002 · 2003

The Glasshouse, Jephson Gardens

🇬🇧 Jephson Gardens, Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England
A contemporary structural-glass glasshouse, opened in 2003 above the River Leam in a restored Victorian park.
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Fox Talbot's Botanic Garden glasshouse, Lacock Abbey, Lacock, near Chippenham (Wiltshire), England
2003 · 1827

Fox Talbot's Botanic Garden glasshouse, Lacock Abbey

🇬🇧 Lacock, near Chippenham (Wiltshire), England
In the walled garden where Fox Talbot grew tender plants under glass, a white glasshouse rebuilt in 2003–2008 on the site of a 19th-century one.
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Conservatory, Arlington Court, Arlington, near Barnstaple, Devon, England
2012

Conservatory, Arlington Court

🇬🇧 Arlington, near Barnstaple, Devon, England
A conservatory rebuilt in 2012 on the model of the 1925 one, topped by the heron and eel emblem of the Chichester family.
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Orangery, Peckover House, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, England
2013

Orangery, Peckover House

🇬🇧 Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, England
A Victorian orangery recreated in 2013 in timber and glass, housing three orange trees that the National Trust says are over 300 years old.
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Cliffe Castle Park glasshouses (Dome House), Cliffe Castle Park, Keighley, West Yorkshire, England
2016 · 1880

Cliffe Castle Park glasshouses (Dome House)

🇬🇧 Cliffe Castle Park, Keighley, West Yorkshire, England
A Victorian glasshouse demolished and rebuilt in 2017 on its original footprint, with a central dome and a cactus collection.
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Pudsey Park Glasshouse (The Really Wild Café), Pudsey Park, Church Lane, Pudsey, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
2026

Pudsey Park Glasshouse (The Really Wild Café)

🇬🇧 Pudsey Park, Church Lane, Pudsey, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
A park glasshouse closed from 2020 to 2026, reopened in July as a cafe among tropical plants, ahead of a zoo next door.
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Botanical Glasshouse, The Walled Gardens of Cannington

🇬🇧 Cannington, near Bridgwater (Somerset), England
Four climate zones under glass in the walled garden of a former Benedictine priory, officially opened in 2009.
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Scotland (22)

The Pavilion (Gothic glasshouse), Abbotsford, Abbotsford, near Melrose (Scottish Borders), Scotland
1825 · 1823

The Pavilion (Gothic glasshouse), Abbotsford

🇬🇧 Abbotsford, near Melrose (Scottish Borders), Scotland
Walter Scott's Gothic glasshouse, which recalls a medieval tent, still holds part of its small original panes of glass.
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Victorian Palm Houses, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
1834 · 1858

Victorian Palm Houses, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

🇬🇧 Edinburgh, Scotland
Two A-listed palm houses, from 1834 and 1858, joined into a single space by a five-year restoration completed in October 2026.
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Glasshouses and Jubilee Conservatory, Balmoral Castle South Gardens, Balmoral, near Ballater (Aberdeenshire), Scotland
1856 · 2002

Glasshouses and Jubilee Conservatory, Balmoral Castle South Gardens

🇬🇧 Balmoral, near Ballater (Aberdeenshire), Scotland
A group of glasshouses of 1856–1857, listed Category B, in the gardens of the royal castle, with a conservatory built for the 2002 Golden Jubilee.
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Floors Castle Walled Garden glasshouses, Floors Castle, near Kelso (Scottish Borders), Scotland
1857

Floors Castle Walled Garden glasshouses

🇬🇧 Floors Castle, near Kelso (Scottish Borders), Scotland
According to the castle, the walled garden moved in 1857 still has its original vinery range, growing grapes, figs and peaches.
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Vinery and Peach House, Culzean Walled Garden, Culzean Castle, near Maybole (South Ayrshire), Scotland
1859 · 2000

Vinery and Peach House, Culzean Walled Garden

🇬🇧 Culzean Castle, near Maybole (South Ayrshire), Scotland
A 70 m vinery rebuilt in 2000 on the Victorian footings found by archaeologists, in one of Scotland's largest walled gardens.
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Ascog Hall Victorian Fernery, Ascog, Isle of Bute (Argyll and Bute), Scotland
1870 · 1997

Ascog Hall Victorian Fernery

🇬🇧 Ascog, Isle of Bute (Argyll and Bute), Scotland
A Todea barbara fern, already called a thousand years old in 1879, is the sole survivor of this sunken glasshouse's original collection.
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Benmore Fernery, Benmore, near Dunoon (Argyll), Scotland
1870 · 2009

Benmore Fernery

🇬🇧 Benmore, near Dunoon (Argyll), Scotland
A Victorian fernery built against a cliff face, left in ruins for about a century before its revival in 2009.
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1872 · 2021

Hospitalfield Fernery and Glasshouse Café

🇬🇧 Hospitalfield, Arbroath, Angus, Scotland
A Victorian mock-ruin fernery of 1872 for New Zealand tree ferns, given a contemporary glass roof in 2021.
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Kibble Palace, Glasgow, Scotland
1873

Kibble Palace

🇬🇧 Glasgow, Scotland
Built on the shores of Loch Long, this Victorian glasshouse was taken apart and carried by barge up the Clyde to Glasgow.
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The Glass House, Drumlanrig Castle Gardens, Drumlanrig Castle, near Thornhill (Dumfries and Galloway), Scotland
1877

The Glass House, Drumlanrig Castle Gardens

🇬🇧 Drumlanrig Castle, near Thornhill (Dumfries and Galloway), Scotland
A large ten-bay Victorian glass house designed around 1877 by Charles Howitt, its roof rising over the rear wall to form a clerestory.
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Large and Small Glasshouses, Malleny Garden, Balerno, Edinburgh (City of Edinburgh), Scotland
1883 · 1893

Large and Small Glasshouses, Malleny Garden

🇬🇧 Balerno, Edinburgh (City of Edinburgh), Scotland
The whole roof apex of the small glasshouse lifts by a lever, a ventilation system the NTS knows of nowhere else.
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Main Range glasshouses, Glasgow Botanic Gardens, Glasgow, Scotland
1883–1884

Main Range glasshouses, Glasgow Botanic Gardens

🇬🇧 Glasgow, Scotland
Eleven glasshouse compartments in a row hold one of the most extensive begonia collections in the world.
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Walled garden glasshouses, Crathes Castle, Crathes Castle, near Banchory (Aberdeenshire), Scotland
1886 · 1978

Walled garden glasshouses, Crathes Castle

🇬🇧 Crathes Castle, near Banchory (Aberdeenshire), Scotland
Five stepped Mackenzie & Moncur glasshouses in the walled garden at Crathes, one of them holding Malmaison carnations listed by Plant Heritage.
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People's Palace and Winter Gardens, Glasgow Green, Glasgow, Scotland
1898

People's Palace and Winter Gardens

🇬🇧 Glasgow Green, Glasgow, Scotland
A large Victorian glasshouse attached to a red-sandstone "people's palace", closed since 2018 pending a £35.9m restoration.
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1898 · 1911

Victorian glasshouses and grotto, Portmore walled garden

🇬🇧 Eddleston, near Peebles (Scottish Borders), Scotland
A glasshouse range of 1898 along the north wall of a walled garden, opening onto an Italianate grotto planted with ferns.
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David Welch Winter Gardens (Duthie Park), Aberdeen, Scotland
1899 · 1970

David Welch Winter Gardens (Duthie Park)

🇬🇧 Aberdeen, Scotland
One of Europe's largest indoor gardens, rebuilt in 1970 after gales destroyed the Victorian palm house of 1899.
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Tropical House and Cactus House, Inverness Botanic Gardens, Inverness, Highland, Scotland
1993

Tropical House and Cactus House, Inverness Botanic Gardens

🇬🇧 Inverness, Highland, Scotland
At the UK's most northerly botanic garden, a tropical house with a waterfall and koi pool leads straight into a cactus house.
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Threave Garden walled garden display glasshouse, Threave Garden, Castle Douglas (Dumfries and Galloway), Scotland
1997 · 1872

Threave Garden walled garden display glasshouse

🇬🇧 Threave Garden, Castle Douglas (Dumfries and Galloway), Scotland
At the end of a yew-lined avenue, a reconstructed Victorian glasshouse brings together three climates, cacti, orchids and koi carp.
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Fern Dome (geodesic) and Conservatory, Attadale Gardens, Strathcarron, Wester Ross, Highland, Scotland

Fern Dome (geodesic) and Conservatory, Attadale Gardens

🇬🇧 Strathcarron, Wester Ross, Highland, Scotland
A translucent geodesic dome shelters a collection of tender ferns in a sunken garden in Wester Ross.
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Mackenzie & Moncur glasshouse, Gordon Castle Walled Garden, Fochabers (Moray), Scotland

Mackenzie & Moncur glasshouse, Gordon Castle Walled Garden

🇬🇧 Fochabers (Moray), Scotland
A restored Victorian Mackenzie & Moncur glasshouse in one of Britain's largest walled kitchen gardens, where tomatoes ripen in summer.
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Mackenzie & Moncur glasshouse, Kailzie Gardens, Kailzie, near Peebles (Scottish Borders), Scotland

Mackenzie & Moncur glasshouse, Kailzie Gardens

🇬🇧 Kailzie, near Peebles (Scottish Borders), Scotland
A Regency-style lean-to glasshouse by Mackenzie & Moncur, listed Category B, in an 1811 walled garden where fuchsias and pelargoniums fill the summer.
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University of Dundee Botanic Garden Glasshouses

🇬🇧 Riverside Drive, Dundee, Scotland
A glasshouse with tropical, temperate and arid compartments in a university garden opened in 1971, which the university proposes to leave in 2027.
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London (14)

The Vinery (pinery-vinery), Fulham Palace walled garden, Fulham, London (London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham)
1810 · 2010

The Vinery (pinery-vinery), Fulham Palace walled garden

🇬🇧 Fulham, London (London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham)
A pinery-vinery of the bishops of London, ruined then rebuilt in 2010, now growing tomatoes and cucumbers in a walled garden.
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Chiswick House Conservatory, Chiswick, London (Hounslow)
1813 · 2010

Chiswick House Conservatory

🇬🇧 Chiswick, London (Hounslow)
Its camellia collection, with plants thought to date back to 1828, is one of the oldest in Europe grown under glass.
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Palm House, Kew, London
1844–1848

Palm House

🇬🇧 Kew, London
The technical cradle of every great glasshouse that followed.
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The Crystal Palace (lost), Hyde Park, then Sydenham Hill, London
1851

The Crystal Palace (lost)

🇬🇧 Hyde Park, then Sydenham Hill, London
Built in five months for the Great Exhibition of 1851, it was glazed with 293,000 panes made by Chance Brothers of Smethwick.
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Waterlily House, Kew Gardens, Kew, London (Richmond upon Thames)
1852 · 2025

Waterlily House, Kew Gardens

🇬🇧 Kew, London (Richmond upon Thames)
When it opened in 1852 to show off the giant Victoria waterlily, it was the widest single-span glasshouse in the world.
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Temperate House, Kew, London
1863 · 1899

Temperate House

🇬🇧 Kew, London
The largest surviving Victorian glasshouse in the world.
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Blackburn Pavilion (tropical bird pavilion, former 1883 reptile house), London Zoo, Regent's Park, London
1882 · 2008

Blackburn Pavilion (tropical bird pavilion, former 1883 reptile house), London Zoo

🇬🇧 Regent's Park, London
A Victorian reptile house of 1883, turned in 2008 into a tropical forest walk-through under a partly glazed roof.
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Avery Hill Winter Garden, Eltham, London (Greenwich)
1889

Avery Hill Winter Garden

🇬🇧 Eltham, London (Greenwich)
It is described as the second-largest Victorian glasshouse in the United Kingdom, after the Temperate House at Kew.
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Glasshouses, Chelsea Physic Garden, Chelsea, London (Kensington and Chelsea)
1902

Glasshouses, Chelsea Physic Garden

🇬🇧 Chelsea, London (Kensington and Chelsea)
Founded in 1673, the garden is thought to have had England's first heated glasshouse; its 1902 teak glasshouses reopened in 2023.
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Great Vine House, Hampton Court Palace, Hampton, London (Richmond upon Thames)
1969 · 1768

Great Vine House, Hampton Court Palace

🇬🇧 Hampton, London (Richmond upon Thames)
A glasshouse built in 1969 over its predecessor so as not to disturb a vine planted in 1768 under Capability Brown's direction.
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Princess of Wales Conservatory, Kew Gardens, Kew, London (Richmond upon Thames)
1987

Princess of Wales Conservatory, Kew Gardens

🇬🇧 Kew, London (Richmond upon Thames)
Opened by Diana in 1987, it gathers ten computer-controlled climates under one roof, from cool desert to tropical rainforest.
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Reconstructed Victorian Glasshouse Range, Myddelton House Gardens, Enfield, London
2011

Reconstructed Victorian Glasshouse Range, Myddelton House Gardens

🇬🇧 Enfield, London
Kitchen-garden glasshouses rebuilt on the rediscovered footings of the original range, with a vine house, a sunken Peach House and four climatic zones.
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Sky Garden, 20 Fenchurch Street, City of London, London
2015

Sky Garden, 20 Fenchurch Street

🇬🇧 City of London, London
London's highest public garden: three planted levels beneath the glazed crown of the 'Walkie-Talkie' tower.
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London Butterfly Gardens (Main Glasshouse), Hall Place, Bexley, London

London Butterfly Gardens (Main Glasshouse), Hall Place

🇬🇧 Bexley, London
A renovated glasshouse in the old kitchen garden of a Tudor manor, where hundreds of tropical butterflies have flown at 28 °C since July 2024.
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Wales (6)

Plantasia (Plantasia Tropical Zoo), Swansea, Wales
1990

Plantasia (Plantasia Tropical Zoo)

🇬🇧 Swansea, Wales
A 1990 glass pyramid set in a retail park, where a rainforest and an arid zone now house more than forty animal species.
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Great Glasshouse (Tŷ Gwydr Mawr), National Botanic Garden of Wales, Llanarthne, Wales
2000

Great Glasshouse (Tŷ Gwydr Mawr)

🇬🇧 National Botanic Garden of Wales, Llanarthne, Wales
Designed by Foster and Partners, the world's largest single-span glasshouse gathers plants from all six Mediterranean-climate regions.
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Aberglasney Ninfarium, Llangathen, Carmarthenshire, Wales
2005

Aberglasney Ninfarium

🇬🇧 Llangathen, Carmarthenshire, Wales
A subtropical garden planted in the ruined rooms of a Welsh mansion, under a glass atrium completed in 2005.
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Glasshouse, Dyffryn Gardens, St Nicholas, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
2011

Glasshouse, Dyffryn Gardens

🇬🇧 St Nicholas, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
A long glasshouse rebuilt in 2011 on the footprint of the one where Reginald Cory grew his tender plants, with cactus and orchid houses.
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Glasshouses, Singleton Botanical Gardens, Swansea, Wales

Glasshouses, Singleton Botanical Gardens

🇬🇧 Swansea, Wales
Four landscaped glasshouses, tropical, temperate, economic and arid, replaced the wooden houses of the educational garden Swansea opened in 1926.
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Treborth Botanic Garden Glasshouses

🇬🇧 Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales
Five glasshouses with distinct climates, from rainforest (18 to 35 °C) to carnivorous plants, in a university botanic garden on the Menai Strait.
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Cheshire (3)

The Orangery, Lyme Park, Disley, Cheshire
1815 · 1862

The Orangery, Lyme Park

🇬🇧 Disley, Cheshire
An orangery of 1815 warmed by underfloor heating that used waste heat from the estate's brewhouse and laundry.
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Fernery and Conservatory (Orangery), Tatton Park, Knutsford, Cheshire
1818 · 1859

Fernery and Conservatory (Orangery), Tatton Park

🇬🇧 Knutsford, Cheshire
A tall Victorian fernery built in 1859 for New Zealand tree ferns, linked to a conservatory of 1818.
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Monsoon Forest (Chester Zoo, Islands), Chester (Upton-by-Chester), Cheshire
2015

Monsoon Forest (Chester Zoo, Islands)

🇬🇧 Chester (Upton-by-Chester), Cheshire
The UK's largest indoor zoo habitat, gutted by fire in 2018 and replanted with more than 2,600 new plants and trees.
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Devon (3)

Palm House, Bicton Park Botanical Gardens, Bicton, Devon
1820 · 1985

Palm House, Bicton Park Botanical Gardens

🇬🇧 Bicton, Devon
Built around 1825, some twenty years before Kew's Palm House, its curving roof is glazed with about 18,000 small overlapping panes.
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Torre Abbey Palm House and Arid House, Torquay, Devon
1969

Torre Abbey Palm House and Arid House

🇬🇧 Torquay, Devon
A 1969 aluminium-framed palm house holding rare palms donated by Kew, in the gardens of an abbey founded in 1196.
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Overbeck's Garden Conservatory (lean-to conservatory of the house), Sharpitor, Salcombe, Devon

Overbeck's Garden Conservatory (lean-to conservatory of the house)

🇬🇧 Sharpitor, Salcombe, Devon
A timber-and-glass conservatory against Overbeck's house, where the National Trust cites cacti and succulents more than two metres tall.
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Norfolk (3)

Iron glasshouse (The Glass House), Hoveton Hall Gardens, Hoveton, Norfolk
1809–1812

Iron glasshouse (The Glass House), Hoveton Hall Gardens

🇬🇧 Hoveton, Norfolk
A Grade II* glasshouse of about 1809-1812, an early use of rolled wrought iron; the estate counts it among three or four surviving iron glasshouses.
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Great Yarmouth Winter Gardens, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
1878–1881

Great Yarmouth Winter Gardens

🇬🇧 Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
Built in Torquay and shipped by barge to Norfolk, it is the last Victorian cast-iron and glass seaside winter garden in the country.
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Boulton & Paul glasshouse range, Raveningham Hall Gardens

🇬🇧 Raveningham, Norfolk
A late 19th-century Boulton & Paul glasshouse of iron and timber at the heart of a walled kitchen garden brought back into working order.
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Northern Ireland (3)

Victorian glasshouse, Glenarm Castle Walled Garden, Glenarm, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
1860–1879

Victorian glasshouse, Glenarm Castle Walled Garden

🇬🇧 Glenarm, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
A lean-to glasshouse over 50 m long on the north wall of the walled garden, still growing peaches, apricots and grapes according to a local guide.
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Terrace glasshouses, Annesley Walled Garden (Castlewellan), Castlewellan Forest Park, Castlewellan, County Down, Northern Ireland
1871 · 2026

Terrace glasshouses, Annesley Walled Garden (Castlewellan)

🇬🇧 Castlewellan Forest Park, Castlewellan, County Down, Northern Ireland
Three Victorian glasshouses of 63 to 145 m² line the terrace of a walled garden in County Down, restored for the March 2026 reopening.
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Tropical Ravine (Belfast Botanic Gardens), Belfast, Northern Ireland
1887–1889

Tropical Ravine (Belfast Botanic Gardens)

🇬🇧 Belfast, Northern Ireland
A Victorian glasshouse built around a sunken tropical glen that visitors look down on from a balcony.
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Bedfordshire (2)

1822

Camellia House, Woburn Abbey

🇬🇧 Woburn, Bedfordshire
An 1822 conservatory by Wyatville for the 6th Duke of Bedford, listed Grade I, where camellias flowered from November to April.
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2015

Butterfly House, Whipsnade Zoo

🇬🇧 Whipsnade, near Dunstable, Bedfordshire (England)
A chrysalis-shaped timber dome under twin-skin ETFE has housed more than 30 butterfly species since 2015.
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Birmingham (2)

Glasshouses, Birmingham Botanical Gardens, Edgbaston, Birmingham (West Midlands)
1852 · 1990

Glasshouses, Birmingham Botanical Gardens

🇬🇧 Edgbaston, Birmingham (West Midlands)
Built in 1852 partly to house the giant waterlily Victoria amazonica, the Tropical House is laid out around a raised circular pool.
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Glasshouses, Winterbourne House and Garden, Edgbaston, Birmingham (West Midlands)
1903

Glasshouses, Winterbourne House and Garden

🇬🇧 Edgbaston, Birmingham (West Midlands)
A 1903 lean-to glasshouse, rebuilt in 2006, in the walled garden of an Arts and Crafts villa that became a university botanic garden.
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Cornwall (2)

Victorian glasshouse range, Tregrehan Garden, Tregrehan, near Par, Cornwall
1845

Victorian glasshouse range, Tregrehan Garden

🇬🇧 Tregrehan, near Par, Cornwall
A glasshouse range some 60 m long built in the mid-1840s in a walled garden, re-glazed, roof included, in the early 1990s.
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Eden Project, Bodelva, Cornwall
2001

Eden Project

🇬🇧 Bodelva, Cornwall
A dead clay pit reborn as a rainforest under bubbles.
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Hampshire (2)

2018

Tropical House (“Energy for Life”), Marwell Zoo

🇬🇧 Colden Common, Hampshire
A zoo rainforest house under 17 three-layer ETFE cushions, heated since 2021 with the zoo's own animal waste.
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Walled-garden glasshouse, Hinton Ampner, Hinton Ampner, Hampshire

Walled-garden glasshouse, Hinton Ampner

🇬🇧 Hinton Ampner, Hampshire
A lean-to glasshouse against the brick wall of the walled garden, where the National Trust displays exotic houseplants at waist height.
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Isle of Wight (2)

Osborne House walled garden glasshouses, East Cowes, Isle of Wight (England)
1854

Osborne House walled garden glasshouses

🇬🇧 East Cowes, Isle of Wight (England)
Two lean-to glasshouses built in 1854 to show exotic plants in the walled garden of Victoria and Albert's family home.
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Tropical House, Ventnor Botanic Garden, Ventnor, Isle of Wight
1986–1987

Tropical House, Ventnor Botanic Garden

🇬🇧 Ventnor, Isle of Wight
Visitors enter through a mock derelict mineshaft that opens into the humid heat of a tropical rainforest.
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North Yorkshire (2)

Scampston Hall Conservatory (William Richardson glasshouse), Scampston, near Malton, North Yorkshire
1894

Scampston Hall Conservatory (William Richardson glasshouse)

🇬🇧 Scampston, near Malton, North Yorkshire
An 1894 Richardson glasshouse on a heated wall, given back its two wings by a £1 million restoration.
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Orchid House and Vine House, Helmsley Walled Garden, Helmsley, North Yorkshire

Orchid House and Vine House, Helmsley Walled Garden

🇬🇧 Helmsley, North Yorkshire
The orchid house of Duncombe Park's kitchen garden, where a head gardener devised a way of glazing without putty.
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Oxfordshire (2)

Glasshouses, Oxford Botanic Garden (University of Oxford), Oxford, Oxfordshire
1851 · 1972

Glasshouses, Oxford Botanic Garden (University of Oxford)

🇬🇧 Oxford, Oxfordshire
The tank of the water lily house, built in 1851 in the wake of Paxton's success with Victoria, is the oldest part of the glasshouses.
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1980 · 2024

Blenheim Palace Butterfly House

🇬🇧 Woodstock, Oxfordshire
A tropical glasshouse in Blenheim's Walled Garden, open since the 1980s, where butterflies from around the world share the space with zebra finches.
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Warrington (2)

Grappenhall Heys Walled Garden glasshouses, Grappenhall, Warrington (Cheshire)
1830 · 2014

Grappenhall Heys Walled Garden glasshouses

🇬🇧 Grappenhall, Warrington (Cheshire)
Eight Foster & Pearson glasshouses, left derelict then rebuilt in timber in 2013-2014 with over a million pounds of heritage lottery money.
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Walton Hall and Gardens Glasshouses and Conservatory Range

🇬🇧 Higher Walton, Warrington (Cheshire)
Closed in 1993, this council-owned conservatory range was restored with about GBP 2 million of National Lottery money and reopened in October 2019.
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West Sussex (2)

Vine and Peach House and Tropical Glasshouse, Arundel Castle Gardens, Arundel, West Sussex
1852

Vine and Peach House and Tropical Glasshouse, Arundel Castle Gardens

🇬🇧 Arundel, West Sussex
A Victorian vine and peach house, Grade II listed and restored in 2000, still planted inside the castle's organic kitchen garden.
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2022

Woolbeding Glasshouse (Silk Route Garden), Woolbeding Gardens

🇬🇧 Midhurst, West Sussex
A Heatherwick Studio glasshouse whose ten steel "sepals" open in four minutes into a crown, then close over subtropical plants.
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Elsewhere (58)

Camellia House, Wentworth Woodhouse, Wentworth, Rotherham (South Yorkshire)
1738

Camellia House, Wentworth Woodhouse

🇬🇧 Wentworth, Rotherham (South Yorkshire)
Nineteen camellias, counted among the oldest in the Western world, survived in this Georgian pavilion rescued from dereliction.
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Samuel Wyatt Vinery, Holkham Walled Garden, Holkham, North Norfolk (Norfolk)
1780

Samuel Wyatt Vinery, Holkham Walled Garden

🇬🇧 Holkham, North Norfolk (Norfolk)
Designed by Samuel Wyatt in 1780, this brick and Coade stone vinery came off the national Heritage at Risk Register in 2022.
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Mackenzie & Moncur glasshouse, Geilston Garden walled garden, Cardross, Argyll and Bute (Scotland)
1797

Mackenzie & Moncur glasshouse, Geilston Garden walled garden

🇬🇧 Cardross, Argyll and Bute (Scotland)
A restored Victorian glasshouse by Mackenzie & Moncur whose cast-iron pipes and floor grilles still warm seedlings after more than a century.
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The Orangery, Sezincote, Sezincote, near Moreton-in-Marsh (Gloucestershire)
1800–1805

The Orangery, Sezincote

🇬🇧 Sezincote, near Moreton-in-Marsh (Gloucestershire)
A quarter-circle Mughal-style orangery with a glass roof and fifteen pointed arches, ending in an octagonal former aviary.
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Orangery and Hothouses, Ripley Castle Walled Garden, Ripley, near Harrogate (North Yorkshire)
1817–1818

Orangery and Hothouses, Ripley Castle Walled Garden

🇬🇧 Ripley, near Harrogate (North Yorkshire)
Its gardeners grew bananas, papayas and pineapples here, and one pineapple variety, 'Ripley Queen', still carries the estate's name.
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The Orangery, Belton House, Belton, near Grantham (Lincolnshire)
1821

The Orangery, Belton House

🇬🇧 Belton, near Grantham (Lincolnshire)
Jeffry Wyatville's design was shown at the Royal Academy in 1811, a decade before the orangery was finally built.
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Camellia House, Wollaton Hall, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
1823

Camellia House, Wollaton Hall

🇬🇧 Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
A glasshouse of 1823 whose cast-iron Doric columns double as rainwater downpipes.
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The Conservatory, Alton Towers Gardens, Alton (Farley), Staffordshire
1824 · 2017

The Conservatory, Alton Towers Gardens

🇬🇧 Alton (Farley), Staffordshire
Seven glazed cast-iron domes with pineapple finials crown this stone conservatory, built around 1824 for the 15th Earl of Shrewsbury.
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Great Conservatory, Syon Park, Syon Park, Brentford (London)
1826 · 1986

Great Conservatory, Syon Park

🇬🇧 Syon Park, Brentford (London)
Its listing describes it as the first metal horticultural structure of any importance, completed around 1830.
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The Pavilions, Sheffield Botanical Gardens, Sheffield, South Yorkshire
1836 · 2003

The Pavilions, Sheffield Botanical Gardens

🇬🇧 Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Designed by Benjamin Broomhead Taylor after a competition judged by Joseph Paxton, the three domed pavilions reopened in 2003.
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1839–1852

Palm House

🇬🇧 Botanic Gardens, Belfast
One of the oldest surviving examples of a curvilinear cast-iron glasshouse, whitewashed every summer to protect the plants.
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The Glasshouse at Wray Castle, Wray Castle, near Ambleside, Low Wray (Cumbria)
1845

The Glasshouse at Wray Castle

🇬🇧 Wray Castle, near Ambleside, Low Wray (Cumbria)
A three-bay stone glasshouse under a glazed pyramidal roof, beside a battlemented tower, restored by the National Trust.
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The Conservative Wall ("The Case"), Chatsworth, Chatsworth, near Bakewell (Derbyshire)
1848–1850

The Conservative Wall ("The Case"), Chatsworth

🇬🇧 Chatsworth, near Bakewell (Derbyshire)
Two 'Captain Rawes' camellias planted in 1850 still grow behind the glazing that Joseph Paxton fitted to this heated wall.
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Inveresk Lodge Garden Lean-to Glasshouse, Inveresk, Musselburgh (East Lothian, Scotland)
1853

Inveresk Lodge Garden Lean-to Glasshouse

🇬🇧 Inveresk, Musselburgh (East Lothian, Scotland)
A lean-to glasshouse thought to date from 1853, with pelargoniums in one house and figs, grapes and peaches in the other.
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Charles Darwin's Greenhouse and Hothouse, Down House, Downe (Orpington), Greater London
1863

Charles Darwin's Greenhouse and Hothouse, Down House

🇬🇧 Downe (Orpington), Greater London
Darwin spent sixteen years here feeding sundews roast beef and boiled egg, the research behind his book Insectivorous Plants (1875).
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Orchard House, Cragside Formal Garden, Rothbury (Northumberland)
1870

Orchard House, Cragside Formal Garden

🇬🇧 Rothbury (Northumberland)
The last survivor of Lord Armstrong's glasshouses, it grew fruit trees in pots set on turntables so that every side could be turned to the sun.
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The Victorian Conservatory, Pearson Park, Kingston upon Hull (East Riding of Yorkshire)
1891

The Victorian Conservatory, Pearson Park

🇬🇧 Kingston upon Hull (East Riding of Yorkshire)
The third glasshouse on the same spot, this 185 m² replica follows the 1891 design and keeps cast-iron supports from its predecessor.
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Standen House Conservatory, East Grinstead (West Sussex)
1892–1894

Standen House Conservatory

🇬🇧 East Grinstead (West Sussex)
A glass-roofed conservatory by Philip Webb, where a hare's foot fern has been growing for more than a century.
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Chatsworth Display Greenhouse, Bakewell (Derbyshire)
1970

Chatsworth Display Greenhouse

🇬🇧 Bakewell (Derbyshire)
It holds direct descendants of the bananas and giant water lily that Joseph Paxton grew here in the nineteenth century.
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Sheffield Winter Garden, Sheffield
2002

Sheffield Winter Garden

🇬🇧 Sheffield
One of the largest temperate glasshouses built in the UK in a century, framed entirely in glue-laminated larch.
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The Conservatory, Pavilion Gardens, Buxton, Derbyshire
1870 · 1982

The Conservatory, Pavilion Gardens

🇬🇧 Buxton, Derbyshire
Designed in 1870 as a small concert hall with a stage and an organ, this cast-iron glasshouse has held tropical plants and a fish pond since 1982.
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The Orangery (Palm House), Castle Ashby Gardens, Castle Ashby, near Northampton (Northamptonshire)
1871–1872

The Orangery (Palm House), Castle Ashby Gardens

🇬🇧 Castle Ashby, near Northampton (Northamptonshire)
Beneath its octagonal glass dome, a large central pool holds more than a hundred fish and a wealth of water lilies.
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Belleisle Conservatory, Ayr, South Ayrshire (Scotland)
1879

Belleisle Conservatory

🇬🇧 Ayr, South Ayrshire (Scotland)
Closed in 2005, this 1879 conservatory was rescued by a volunteer charity and reopened to the public in July 2016.
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Victorian Conservatory, Wentworth Castle Gardens, Stainborough, Barnsley (South Yorkshire)
1885

Victorian Conservatory, Wentworth Castle Gardens

🇬🇧 Stainborough, Barnsley (South Yorkshire)
Lit by electricity as early as 1886, it was among the first places in Britain to have electric light, ahead of Buckingham Palace.
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Glasshouse Range, Cambridge University Botanic Garden, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
1888 · 1934

Glasshouse Range, Cambridge University Botanic Garden

🇬🇧 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
In 2004 the first flowering of its titan arum was broadcast live online and watched by more than half a million people.
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Falkland Palace Victorian Glasshouse, Falkland, Fife (Scotland)
1890

Falkland Palace Victorian Glasshouse

🇬🇧 Falkland, Fife (Scotland)
A renovated Victorian glasshouse by Mackenzie & Moncur, home to what the Trust calls Scotland's most comprehensive pelargonium collection.
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Tyntesfield Orangery, Wraxall, near Bristol (North Somerset)
1897

Tyntesfield Orangery

🇬🇧 Wraxall, near Bristol (North Somerset)
A neoclassical orangery of 1897 by Walter Cave, rescued from ruin by the National Trust and open to visitors again.
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Halliday Conservatory, Sunnycroft, Wellington, Telford, Shropshire
1899

Halliday Conservatory, Sunnycroft

🇬🇧 Wellington, Telford, Shropshire
A Victorian timber-and-glass conservatory with stained-glass panels by R. Halliday & Co., one of the few by that maker still standing, restored from 2021.
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Alexandra Park Conservatory, Oldham, Greater Manchester
1907

Alexandra Park Conservatory

🇬🇧 Oldham, Greater Manchester
Supplied by Messenger in 1907, this timber-and-glass conservatory reopened in 2023 after a £460,000 restoration.
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Palm House (Butterfly House), Williamson Park, Lancaster, Lancashire
1909

Palm House (Butterfly House), Williamson Park

🇬🇧 Lancaster, Lancashire
Paid for by Lord Ashton opposite the Ashton Memorial, this Edwardian palm house is now a tropical butterfly house.
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The Glasshouse, Clumber Park Walled Kitchen Garden, Clumber Park, near Worksop (Nottinghamshire)
1910

The Glasshouse, Clumber Park Walled Kitchen Garden

🇬🇧 Clumber Park, near Worksop (Nottinghamshire)
At 137 metres, it is the longest glasshouse anywhere in the care of the National Trust.
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Tropical World (Arnold and Marjorie Ziff Tropical World), Leeds, West Yorkshire
1911 · 1939

Tropical World (Arnold and Marjorie Ziff Tropical World)

🇬🇧 Leeds, West Yorkshire
In the Canal Gardens of Roundhay Park, the largest collection of tropical plants in the United Kingdom after Kew's.
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Walled Garden Glasshouses, Marchmont Estate (Hugo Burge Foundation), Marchmont Estate, near Duns (Scottish Borders)
1915

Walled Garden Glasshouses, Marchmont Estate (Hugo Burge Foundation)

🇬🇧 Marchmont Estate, near Duns (Scottish Borders)
A range of Mackenzie & Moncur glasshouses from 1915, restored after decades of neglect and reopened to the public in 2025 for the first time since 1981.
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Foster & Pearson glasshouse in the walled garden, The Weir Garden, Swainshill, Herefordshire
1920

Foster & Pearson glasshouse in the walled garden, The Weir Garden

🇬🇧 Swainshill, Herefordshire
A 70-foot Foster & Pearson glasshouse set in a three-walled kitchen garden in the 1920s and since restored by the National Trust.
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1934

Alexandra Park Greenhouse

🇬🇧 Alexandra Park, Hastings (East Sussex)
A teak-and-cast-iron greenhouse bought by Hastings in 1934, left derelict from the 1980s and restored by volunteers.
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Tropics and Deserts glasshouses (Tropical Trails and Arid Lands), Paignton Zoo, Paignton Zoo, Totnes Road, Paignton, Torbay (Devon)
1934 · 2000

Tropics and Deserts glasshouses (Tropical Trails and Arid Lands), Paignton Zoo

🇬🇧 Paignton Zoo, Totnes Road, Paignton, Torbay (Devon)
Two glasshouses in a row early on the zoo route: a tropical garden with sloths, reptiles and birds, then a cactus desert.
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The Orangery, Mapperton Gardens, Mapperton, near Beaminster (Dorset)
1960

The Orangery, Mapperton Gardens

🇬🇧 Mapperton, near Beaminster (Dorset)
A classical orangery of the 1960s under a glass roof, overlooking the Fountain Court and sheltering vines and avocados.
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1970

Glasshouses, Durham University Botanic Garden

🇬🇧 Durham, County Durham (England)
1970s research glasshouses turned into display houses: rain on demand, a cactus house, scorpions and tarantulas.
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Roath Park Conservatory (Tropical House), Roath Park, Cardiff (Wales)
1975

Roath Park Conservatory (Tropical House)

🇬🇧 Roath Park, Cardiff (Wales)
A 43 m by 19.5 m temperate glasshouse built around 1975 on the site of two older houses, with mixed glass and polycarbonate glazing since 1988.
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Saughton Park Winter Garden, Saughton, Edinburgh (Scotland)
1984

Saughton Park Winter Garden

🇬🇧 Saughton, Edinburgh (Scotland)
A park glasshouse heated by ground-source heat pumps and an Archimedes screw on the Water of Leith, around a bust of Gandhi.
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Stratford Butterfly Farm (Rainforest Flight Area), Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
1985

Stratford Butterfly Farm (Rainforest Flight Area)

🇬🇧 Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
A landscaped tropical greenhouse where about 2,000 butterflies fly free, presented by the farm as the largest display of its kind in the UK.
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1989 · 2017

Endeavour Tropical House (former Sir Joseph Banks Conservatory), Lincoln Zoo

🇬🇧 Newball, near Langworth, Lincoln (Lincolnshire)
A 1989 glasshouse saved from demolition, taken apart bolt by bolt in Lincoln in 2016 and rebuilt with new glazing inside a zoo.
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The Living Rainforest, Hampstead Norreys, near Newbury (Berkshire)
1993

The Living Rainforest

🇬🇧 Hampstead Norreys, near Newbury (Berkshire)
The glasshouses of a once-renowned orchid nursery, turned into a rainforest home for sloths, pygmy marmosets and dwarf caimans.
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Queen Elizabeth Temperate House (Savill Garden), Windsor Great Park, Englefield Green (Surrey)
1995

Queen Elizabeth Temperate House (Savill Garden)

🇬🇧 Windsor Great Park, Englefield Green (Surrey)
A temperate house opened by Elizabeth II on 25 April 1995 in the Savill Garden, with winter-flowering mahonias, correas and camellias.
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Winter Gardens, Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear (England)
2001

Winter Gardens, Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens

🇬🇧 Sunderland, Tyne and Wear (England)
Its Victorian predecessor, modelled on the Crystal Palace, was wrecked by a mine in 1941; a glass rotunda took its place in 2001.
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Tropical House, National Botanic Garden of Wales, Llanarthne, Carmarthenshire (Wales)
2004

Tropical House, National Botanic Garden of Wales

🇬🇧 Llanarthne, Carmarthenshire (Wales)
Designed by the Welsh-born architect John Belle, it recreates a tropical rainforest within the garden's Double Walled Garden.
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Glasshouses, University of Bristol Botanic Garden, Stoke Bishop, Bristol (England)
2005–2006

Glasshouses, University of Bristol Botanic Garden

🇬🇧 Stoke Bishop, Bristol (England)
The first university botanic garden created in the UK for nearly forty years, with a glasshouse where the giant water lily flowers.
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RHS Garden Wisley Glasshouse (Bicentenary Glasshouse), Wisley, Surrey
2007

RHS Garden Wisley Glasshouse (Bicentenary Glasshouse)

🇬🇧 Wisley, Surrey
A 12 m-high glass nave opened in 2007 for the RHS bicentenary, bringing desert, tropical and temperate climates under one roof.
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Logan Conservatory, Logan Botanic Garden, Port Logan, Dumfries and Galloway (Scotland)
2014

Logan Conservatory, Logan Botanic Garden

🇬🇧 Port Logan, Dumfries and Galloway (Scotland)
According to the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, the first public glasshouse in the UK heated entirely by green energy.
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2023

Vine House and Peach House, Florence Court kitchen garden

🇬🇧 Florence Court, County Fermanagh (Northern Ireland)
Two glasshouses rebuilt in 2023 on the footprint of the originals, which had fallen into decline after 1947.
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Cactus and Succulent Glasshouse (Display House), Capel Manor Gardens, Capel Manor Gardens, Bulls Cross, Enfield (London)

Cactus and Succulent Glasshouse (Display House), Capel Manor Gardens

🇬🇧 Capel Manor Gardens, Bulls Cross, Enfield (London)
A cactus and succulent glasshouse in the walled garden of a north London estate, run in partnership with the British Cactus and Succulent Society.
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Calderglen Tropical Conservatory (Calderglen Conservatory)

🇬🇧 Calderglen Country Park, East Kilbride (South Lanarkshire, Scotland)
A tropical conservatory in a Scottish public park, with plants grouped by continent, whose roof was replaced in 2025-2026.
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Flower Garden and Melon Yard glasshouses (Lost Gardens of Heligan), Pentewan, near St Austell (Cornwall)

Flower Garden and Melon Yard glasshouses (Lost Gardens of Heligan)

🇬🇧 Pentewan, near St Austell (Cornwall)
Heligan describes the pineapple pit in its Melon Yard as the only working manure-heated pineapple pit left in the UK.
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Glasshouses of the Chantry Walled Garden (ActivLives plant nursery), Chantry Park

🇬🇧 Chantry Park, Ipswich, Suffolk
The glasshouses of an eighteenth-century walled kitchen garden in a registered Ipswich park, now a charity's plant nursery.
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Monk's House Conservatory (Leonard Woolf's cactus collection), Rodmell, near Lewes, East Sussex

Monk's House Conservatory (Leonard Woolf's cactus collection)

🇬🇧 Rodmell, near Lewes, East Sussex
Monk's House conservatory holds the cactus and succulent collection that Leonard Woolf built up over nearly thirty years.
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University of Leicester Botanic Garden Glasshouses, Oadby, Leicester (Leicestershire)

University of Leicester Botanic Garden Glasshouses

🇬🇧 Oadby, Leicester (Leicestershire)
Glasshouses in a university botanic garden: desert, alpine, warm-temperate and tropical, with a collection of Balearic Islands species.
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Victorian Glasshouses, West Dean Gardens, West Dean, near Chichester (West Sussex)

Victorian Glasshouses, West Dean Gardens

🇬🇧 West Dean, near Chichester (West Sussex)
Thirteen Victorian glasshouses by Foster & Pearson, derelict until their restoration in the early 1990s, are still used to grow fruit and flowers.
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Vine House, Audley End Kitchen Garden, Audley End, near Saffron Walden (Essex)

Vine House, Audley End Kitchen Garden

🇬🇧 Audley End, near Saffron Walden (Essex)
A 52-metre vine house, restored in the 1990s, where grapevines more than a century old are still grown.
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Architecture in the United Kingdom

Wellington Arch, Hyde Park Corner, London
1825–1827

Wellington Arch

🇬🇧 Hyde Park Corner, London
A triumphal arch by Decimus Burton, moved in the 1880s, crowned since 1912 by a bronze quadriga, with an interior and balconies open to visitors.
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Athenaeum Club, Pall Mall, London
1826–1830

Athenaeum Club

🇬🇧 Pall Mall, London
A Pall Mall clubhouse designed by Decimus Burton, with a Doric portico crowned by a gilded Athena and a Panathenaic frieze carved in Bath stone.
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London Zoo: Burton's layout and buildings, London (Regent's Park)
1826–1841

London Zoo: Burton's layout and buildings

🇬🇧 London (Regent's Park)
The layout and first buildings of London Zoo, designed by Burton under the influence of the Jardin des Plantes in Paris; those still standing include an iron cage, the former camel house, a tunnel and the giraffe house.
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3 and 4 Carlton House Terrace, St James's, London
1827–1829

3 and 4 Carlton House Terrace

🇬🇧 St James's, London
Prince Philip House, home of the Royal Academy of Engineering, takes in two houses of the west terrace that Nash designed in London; Decimus Burton worked on No. 3.
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Holy Trinity Church, now Trinity Theatre, Royal Tunbridge Wells (Kent)
1827–1829

Holy Trinity Church, now Trinity Theatre

🇬🇧 Royal Tunbridge Wells (Kent)
Tunbridge Wells' earliest 19th-century church, a Gothic Revival work by Decimus Burton, saved from demolition and turned into a theatre.
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Calverley Park and Calverley Grounds, Royal Tunbridge Wells (Kent)
1828–1839

Calverley Park and Calverley Grounds

🇬🇧 Royal Tunbridge Wells (Kent)
Twenty-four Decimus Burton villas set around a parkland begun in 1828, an early and influential 'park suburb' whose western part became a public park in the 1920s.
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Adelaide Crescent, Hove (Brighton and Hove)
1830–1860

Adelaide Crescent

🇬🇧 Hove (Brighton and Hove)
A crescent of townhouses designed by Decimus Burton in 1830, of which only the first ten houses follow his original plan, with retaining walls and stairways that Burton also designed.
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Fleetwood Customs House (Fleetwood Museum), Fleetwood, Lancashire
1836

Fleetwood Customs House (Fleetwood Museum)

🇬🇧 Fleetwood, Lancashire
The former customs house of the new town of Fleetwood, designed by Decimus Burton and dated 1836, now houses the town museum.
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Edensor model village, Edensor, Derbyshire
1838–1842

Edensor model village

🇬🇧 Edensor, Derbyshire
The village of the Chatsworth estate, rebuilt for the 6th Duke of Devonshire: Paxton arranged houses in clashing styles, Norman, Tudor, Italian or Swiss chalet, into a harmonious whole.
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St Peter's Church, Fleetwood, Fleetwood, Lancashire
1839–1841

St Peter's Church, Fleetwood

🇬🇧 Fleetwood, Lancashire
A Gothic church by Decimus Burton, built in 1839-1841 as an integral part of the new town of Fleetwood that he was laying out for Sir Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood.
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Lower Lighthouse, Fleetwood, Fleetwood, Lancashire
1840

Lower Lighthouse, Fleetwood

🇬🇧 Fleetwood, Lancashire
Fleetwood's lower lighthouse, designed by Decimus Burton, forms with the Pharos a pair of leading lights meant to guide ships into the Wyre channel.
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North Euston Hotel, Fleetwood, Lancashire
1840–1841

North Euston Hotel

🇬🇧 Fleetwood, Lancashire
A crescent-shaped hotel designed by Decimus Burton as the centrepiece of the new town of Fleetwood, opened in 1841 where the railway line from London Euston ended.
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Pharos Lighthouse, Fleetwood (Upper Lighthouse), Fleetwood, Lancashire
1840

Pharos Lighthouse, Fleetwood (Upper Lighthouse)

🇬🇧 Fleetwood, Lancashire
A red sandstone column that dominates Pharos Place, one of only two squares completed in Decimus Burton's plan for Fleetwood, and forms with the Lower Lighthouse a pair of leading lights into the Wyre.
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Princes Park, Liverpool (Toxteth)
1842

Princes Park

🇬🇧 Liverpool (Toxteth)
Joseph Paxton's first park, with an irregularly shaped lake and a carriage drive around its edge, which became the prototype for his later parks.
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Birkenhead Park, Birkenhead (Merseyside)
1843–1847

Birkenhead Park

🇬🇧 Birkenhead (Merseyside)
The first public park in the United Kingdom created at public expense, laid out by Paxton, with planting that hides and then reveals the views, and an influence on the design of Central Park in New York.
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Emperor Fountain, Chatsworth, Chatsworth, near Bakewell (Derbyshire)
1843–1844

Emperor Fountain, Chatsworth

🇬🇧 Chatsworth, near Bakewell (Derbyshire)
A gravity-fed fountain raised for a tsar who never came, its jet on record at 90 m.
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London Road Cemetery, Coventry, Coventry (West Midlands)
1847

London Road Cemetery, Coventry

🇬🇧 Coventry (West Midlands)
Paxton laid out this cemetery partly on a former stone quarry and made its hillocks and hollows one of the main features of the plan.
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Matlock railway station, Matlock, Derbyshire
1850

Matlock railway station

🇬🇧 Matlock, Derbyshire
The station buildings at Matlock, which came into use in 1850, were designed by Joseph Paxton, the designer of the Crystal Palace.
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People's Park, Halifax, Halifax (West Yorkshire)
1857

People's Park, Halifax

🇬🇧 Halifax (West Yorkshire)
The park Paxton designed for Halifax: to the west, a terrace lined with statues and a classical pavilion; to the east, a winding pond crossed by two cast-iron bridges.
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Italian Garden, Tatton Park, Tatton Park, near Knutsford (Cheshire)
1860

Italian Garden, Tatton Park

🇬🇧 Tatton Park, near Knutsford (Cheshire)
A terraced Italian garden laid out by Joseph Paxton, with a square pool holding a marble Triton.
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Baxter Park, Dundee (Scotland)
1862–1863

Baxter Park

🇬🇧 Dundee (Scotland)
The only complete park that Paxton designed wholly himself in Scotland: a pleasure garden to the north, a parade ground to the south, and between them a terrace with the pavilion by his son-in-law.
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Oxford Ice Rink, Oxford
1984

Oxford Ice Rink

🇬🇧 Oxford
An ice rink hung from two 30 m masts that echo Oxford's spires.
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Financial Times Printworks, London (Blackwall)
1988

Financial Times Printworks

🇬🇧 London (Blackwall)
A glass and aluminium printing works whose 96 m glazed wall put the Financial Times presses in view of the road.
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Sainsbury's supermarket, Camden Town, London (Camden Town)
1988

Sainsbury's supermarket, Camden Town

🇬🇧 London (Camden Town)
Outside, its steel structure is left in view: cantilever girders, held by clusters of tension rods, carry the arched trusses that roof the shop floor.
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Waterloo International railway station, London
1993

Waterloo International railway station

🇬🇧 London
A long, asymmetrical arched roof of glass and steel that follows the curve of the tracks on an irregular site in central London and housed Eurostar's London terminus from 1994 to 2007.
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Western Morning News headquarters and printworks (The Ship), Plymouth (Derriford)
1993

Western Morning News headquarters and printworks (The Ship)

🇬🇧 Plymouth (Derriford)
A ship-shaped glass hull, topped 22 m up by a cantilevered box designed for the boardroom, in the position of a ship's bridge.
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Lord's Grand Stand, London (St John's Wood)
1998

Lord's Grand Stand

🇬🇧 London (St John's Wood)
A two-tier stand carried by just three columns and a spine beam, its 25 boxes appearing to float.
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Paddington station, Phase I redevelopment, London
1999–2000

Paddington station, Phase I redevelopment

🇬🇧 London
The Lawn, a two-storey glass structure, is the key addition in the redevelopment of Brunel and Matthew Digby Wyatt's Victorian station.
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National Space Centre, Leicester, England
2001

National Space Centre

🇬🇧 Leicester, England
A 42-metre steel tower, wrapped in ETFE pillows and shaped by the dimensions of the rockets it houses, beside an exhibition podium whose roof is pierced by the planetarium dome.
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Piccadilly Gardens Pavilion, Central Manchester
2002

Piccadilly Gardens Pavilion

🇬🇧 Central Manchester
A long curved concrete pavilion, Ando's only building in the United Kingdom, whose wall more than 20,000 residents petitioned to have demolished or transformed.
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Oare Pavilion, Oare (Wiltshire)
2003

Oare Pavilion

🇬🇧 Oare (Wiltshire)
I. M. Pei's only building in the United Kingdom: a pavilion of concrete, steel and glass that some have likened to a pagoda.
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Thermae Bath Spa, Bath, England
2006

Thermae Bath Spa

🇬🇧 Bath, England
A Bath-stone cube on four pillars inside a glass envelope, with an open-air thermal pool on the roof, set among restored Georgian buildings.
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Silence, Carlos Place water feature, Mayfair, London
2011

Silence, Carlos Place water feature

🇬🇧 Mayfair, London
Two trees rise from a granite-edged pool and are wrapped in mist every fifteen minutes.
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London Bridge station (redevelopment), London (Southwark)
2018

London Bridge station (redevelopment)

🇬🇧 London (Southwark)
A street-level concourse bigger than Wembley's football pitch lies beneath the platforms, lit by daylight through openings cut into them.
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2019

Secular Retreat (Chivelstone House)

🇬🇧 Chivelstone, Devon
A massive cantilevered concrete roof carried on hand-rammed concrete columns, in a ring of Monterey pines.
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Wimbledon No. 1 Court, London (Wimbledon)
2019

Wimbledon No. 1 Court

🇬🇧 London (Wimbledon)
Its concertina roof, Tenara fabric stretched between steel trusses, leaves the court as open to the sky as possible when retracted.
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