The village and its boundary
The conservation area here is Hampton Village, a single designation of about 55.3 hectares in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, and the figures below describe that boundary. It contains two Grade I list entries, parts of two registered landscapes and more than a quarter of its land in Flood Zone 3, so heritage and flood questions often arise together.
Housing figures use one surrounding statistical area, which approximates the village rather than matching the conservation-area line. The South West London guide lists the other areas covered in this part of London.
The conservation area in national and council records
Every statement below links to the public record it comes from; sources were re-checked on .
Designation and local guidance
The planning.data.gov.uk entry for the village lists Richmond reference 7357, a record start date of 20 November 2023 (the date the dataset uses for a designation or its latest boundary change, so not necessarily the original designation) and a mapped area of about 55.3 hectares.
Richmond's appraisal page for the conservation area and its village planning guidance SPD are the local documents, and both are read with the national boundary before changes to a frontage, roof or boundary wall are designed.
No Article 4 direction intersecting the conservation area appears in the national Article 4 dataset, so Richmond's own conservation area statements page is checked before permitted development rights are relied on.
Garrick's Villa, the Temple and other entries
Run on 1 November 2026, a query of the NHLE listed-building data returns 54 list entries within the boundary: two at Grade I, one at Grade II* and the remaining 51 at Grade II.
The Grade I entries are Garrick's Villa and Garrick's Shakespeare Temple, and the Grade II* entry is Grove House, including the Moorish Room.
That is roughly one list entry for every hectare of the conservation area, so a property may be listed itself or stand beside a listed building, and the NHLE records for both are read before any work is scoped.
Two registered landscapes
Two registered parks and gardens reach into the boundary: Garrick's Villa, Grade II, overlaps about 2.22 hectares, and Bushy Park, Grade I, about 0.58 hectares.
Small as they are, these overlaps mean a nearby extension may be assessed for its effect on a registered landscape, and the Historic England register entry for Garrick's Villa sets out what is registered there.
Flood Zone 3 from rivers
The Flood Map for Planning places 26.7% of the conservation area in Flood Zone 3 and 4.8% in Flood Zone 2.
By source, the Environment Agency's planning map shows 22.2% of the area in Flood Zone 3 from rivers and 4.5% from rivers and the sea together, while all of the Flood Zone 2 land is attributed to rivers.
These are planning zones that ignore defences and do not describe any single building, so the address is put through the long-term flood risk service too, which also covers surface water.
When a house falls in Flood Zone 3, an extension will usually need a flood risk assessment with the planning application, and an inspection pays attention to floor and threshold levels and to any sign of past water entry, with the planning flood map as the first reference.
Sand and gravel over clay
Bedrock at all five sample points is London Clay Formation, clay and silt, on the national 1:50,000 geology map from BGS.
Above it, four points show Kempton Park Gravel Member and one Taplow Gravel Member, both sand and gravel, on the BGS superficial layer.
Sand and gravel drain freely and avoid the seasonal shrinkage of clay, but leaking drains can loosen them and water levels in them can rise in wet periods, so the BGS viewer is read alongside the flood map rather than on its own.
Housing in the surrounding LSOA
One statistical area surrounds the village for housing purposes, LSOA E01003827, and the VOA's 2025 property stock tables count about 920 dwellings there, rounded to the nearest 10.
Dwellings of 1900-1918 lead that LSOA's age profile at 33.7%, followed by 26.1% from 1973-1999, 14.1% from before 1900, 13.0% from 2000 onwards, 8.7% from 1945-1972 and 4.3% from 1919-1939.
Flats and maisonettes are 52.2% of these dwellings, terraced houses 26.1%, semi-detached 17.4%, detached 4.3% and bungalows 2.2%, according to the VOA type table.
Council tax bands F to H account for 19.6% in the VOA band counts, and band C is the largest single band at 34.8%.
With 1900-1918 and 1973-1999 dwellings together making up about three in five of the stock on the VOA figures, and flats more than half, an instruction here can mean an older house with later additions or a newer flat with a lease and service charge, and the brief changes accordingly.
Guides for individual instructions
The left-hand list holds the local guides, one per instruction, and the right-hand list links the general page for the same service.
Surrounding areas
Neighbouring guides cover Teddington, Twickenham, East Molesey, Thames Ditton and Kingston, and the South West London guide brings the whole group together.
Questions about the village records
Is my house inside Hampton Village conservation area?
Compare the address with the planning.data.gov.uk boundary, which covers about 55.3 hectares, and with Richmond's appraisal page. Nearby streets can fall outside the line, and the postcode alone does not settle it.
Why does the national record show a 2023 date?
planning.data.gov.uk gives 20 November 2023 as the start date of the current record, a field the dataset uses for a designation or its latest boundary change, so it is not necessarily the original designation date. Richmond's own appraisal page is the place to check the designation history and the current boundary.
Which buildings carry the highest listing grades?
Two Grade I entries sit inside the conservation area on the NHLE data: Garrick's Villa and Garrick's Shakespeare Temple. Grove House, including the Moorish Room, is Grade II*, and the other 51 entries are Grade II.
How much of the village is in a planning flood zone?
The Flood Map for Planning places 26.7% of the conservation area in Flood Zone 3 and 4.8% in Flood Zone 2, from rivers or from rivers and the sea together. Those zones ignore defences and are not property-specific, so the long-term flood risk service and the building itself are checked too.
Does gravel ground make subsidence less likely?
Gravel drains well and does not shrink and swell like clay, and the BGS map shows Kempton Park or Taplow Gravel above London Clay at all five sample points. Leaking drains can still wash out fine material and the depth to clay varies, so cracking is always investigated on site.
What should a buyer of an older house tell the surveyor?
The address, whether the house is listed or in the conservation area if you know, any planning or listed building consent references, and details of past flooding, insurance claims or structural repairs. Dated photographs of cracks or water marks help the inspection focus on what has changed.
How we work on an instruction
Hampstead Chartered Surveyors is a RICS-regulated firm (RICS Regulated Firm No. 923064) working from its registered Hampstead NW3 office. The firm does not claim premises, staff or completed instructions in an individual locality, and it does not treat a neighbourhood name as evidence about a particular building.
An instruction starts with the full address, the decision the client faces and the documents already available, such as leases, drawings, notices or earlier reports. The scope, fee and inspection date are confirmed in writing only after that review, and access to roofs, lofts, basements or common parts is agreed before the visit.
Reports include RICS Level 2 and Level 3 home surveys, building and defect investigations, party wall appointments, reinstatement cost assessments, contract administration and schedules of condition. Each report records what was inspected, what could not be seen and what further investigation the evidence supports.
Public datasets such as the conservation-area register, the National Heritage List for England, British Geological Survey mapping, the Environment Agency flood map and Valuation Office Agency housing statistics describe areas rather than individual properties. They frame questions before an inspection; they never replace it.
Reviewed by Savas Bulduk BSc (Hons) MRICS, Director & Chartered Building Surveyor at Hampstead Chartered Surveyors & Building Consultancy. Last reviewed: . Our people · RICS firm record