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World’s largest Victorian glass house to be restored
Horticulturalists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, prepare the Temperate House for a five-year refurbishment of the glass house. Kew Gardens will invest over GBP34m in refurbishing world's largest Victorian glass house which opened to the public in 1863 and is grade I listed. The extensive maintenance programme will involve the removal, cleaning or replacing of all of the building's glass panes of which there are over 100,000.
Horticulturalists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, prepare the Temperate House for a five-year refurbishment of the glass house. Kew Gardens will invest over GBP34m in refurbishing world's largest Victorian glass house which opened to the public in 1863 and is grade I listed. The extensive maintenance programme will involve the removal, cleaning or replacing of all of the building's glass panes of which there are over 100,000.