Pevsner's volume on Surrey describes:

Two of the three sides are lined with worth-while houses, mostly Georgian, and the entrance of the Botanic Gardens lies in the angle between them. Along the SW side from the E first a nice group, Nos 17-25, two and three-storeyed then No 37 with a deep porte-cochere of 1838-40 then Nos 39-41. The Gables is remodelled but the shape of the gables is genuine C17. Then lesser things until the Royal Cottage and the Herbarium House are reached and with this the main gates. On the N side, first the Herbarium, a big building with an eight-bay centre with giant pilasters, attached to a good seven-bay Georgian house of three storeys with projecting corner bays, a doorway with Ionic columns and a pediment, and an original staircase....Then starting with Hanover House, a long group of square C18 houses of different heights with canted bays and iron balconies. The best is No 71, late C18, of five bays with the middle three a little projecting and in the ground-floor blank-arched. The group ends with No 73.

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Rural Walks around Richmond