Kensington Roof Gardens

Urban Farm DB summary

Kensington Roof Gardens is a roughly 6,000 sq m garden atop the former Derry & Toms department store building, designed and built between 1936 and 1938 by landscape architect Ralph Hancock, comprising three themed gardens: a Spanish garden, a Tudor-style garden, and an English woodland garden with a stream and pond. The trees received a tree preservation order in 1976, the garden was Grade II listed in 1998, but public access ended in 2018; after a 2021 acquisition, it reopened in 2024 as a private members' club.

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• 6,000 m2

  garden area(kensington roof gardens)

  Design

  region

  United Kingdom

  year

  1938

• 100 count

  tree species count(kensington roof gardens)

  Biodiversity

  note

  English woodland garden, described as '100+ species of trees'