Neo-Georgian brick and render blocks with cupolas line the Thames, with a riverside park laid to lawn.
What Richmond Riverside looks like
The riverside blocks date from 1984 to 1987 and are built in a neo-Georgian style. Their classical facades are brick with dressings in white render, and numerous cupolas sit above the roofs.
, at 1 , is a New Classical building by Quinlan Terry. The blocks around it hold offices, shops and homes. Heron Square and Whittaker Place are internal courtyards with an air of privacy, and now forms part of the development.
Richmond Riverside Park is a stepped garden on the east bank, laid mostly to lawn with paved walkways. forms the southern edge of the development, and its five moulded arches are Portland stone.
Water Lane keeps granite setts and cart tracks. At its corner with the riverside stands a Grade II listed warehouse of three storeys in stock brick under a pantile roof, with five windows on Water Lane and three on the river front. public house stands on the riverside off Water Lane.
Shot in Richmond Riverside
The BBC series The Night Manager used Richmond Riverside heavily in the first episode of its second series. Surveillance cameras were placed along the towpath, and agents were on Richmond Bridge. A clandestine meeting was staged at the Tide Tables café, and a surveillance van was parked on Whittaker Avenue.
The Night Manager, series 2
The towpath at Richmond Bridge
Surveillance cameras were placed along the towpath in this episode. The photograph shows the towpath beneath the arch on the Richmond side of the bridge. Street View
What Richmond Riverside can double for
Strand on the Green in Chiswick, London
The riverside walk on Strand on the Green is fronted by 18th-century terraces, several of them three storeys tall. Zoffany House is a three-storey brown brick house with red dressings and white painted pilasters at its doorway, close in scale to the Georgian frontage at Richmond, though the brick is brown rather than red. Frame on the house fronts and keep the riverside pubs out of shot, since they break up the terraces. Try searching riverside brick terraces now.
Merrion Square in Dublin, Ireland
Three sides of the square are lined with Georgian redbrick townhouses around a central railed garden. The garden is now a public park. The west side abuts the grounds of Leinster House, so the comparison holds only with framing away from it. Frame tight on the red brick fronts and the park railings, which keeps the Leinster House side out of shot. Try searching Georgian garden square now.
