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Although construction began in 1860, it would not be completed until 1899. It was positioned to be the first feature visitors saw as they entered the gates with the anticipated coming of the first railway station at
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on the iron to push against the masonry which was falling away. Decorative features made of wood were rotting. It last underwent a major restoration in the early 1980s. The building was restored during 2014–15 by
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Temperate House. An early exercise in cast- and wrought-iron and glass construction, the building is structurally sound but the
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159:Greenhouse
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