Description
Capel Gardens and Pinner Court are a 1930s development of symmetrically-arranged colonial-style luxury flats set back from the main road, which were provided with landscaped gardens. To the front are two areas of public gardens, Boulevard Gardens, on either side of the entrance to Pinner New Cemetery. Steps lead up from the public gardens into the private courtyard gardens behind.
Practical Information
| Site location | Pinner Road, Pinner |
|---|---|
| Postcode | HA5 |
| What3Words | ///double.reduce.trips |
| Type of Site | Private Garden |
| Borough | Harrow |
| Open to Public | Partially |
| Opening Times | Boulevard Gardens: unrestricted. Communal gardens private |
| Public Transport | Tube: North Harrow (Metropolitan) then bus. Bus: 83 |
| Research Updated | 1 April 2004 |
| Last Updated | 18 October 2026 |
Full description
Capel Gardens and Pinner Court are symmetrically-arranged Art Deco colonial-style luxury flats, which were designed by H J Mark for the Courtenay Property Company Ltd and built in 1935/6 on former farmland. The 3-storey green-roofed, white-walled buildings are arranged in three groupings, set back some 200ft from the main road with rectangular and L-shaped blocks, between which are ornamental gardens. To the front are Boulevard Gardens, two areas of public gardens either side of the entrance to Pinner New Cemetery (q.v.), laid out with a low retaining wall to the pavement and backed by shrubs to the private housing behind. Pleasantly landscaped, the garden consists of lawn, some flower beds, shrubbery with seating and a linear path. Steps lead up from the public gardens into the private courtyards, which have lawn and shrubbery, ornamented with a pair of obelisks 'a la moderne'.
Further Information
| Grid Reference | TQ131892 |
|---|---|
| Site Ownership | Boulevard Gardens: LB Harrow. Communal gardens to north are private |
| Site Management | Boulevard Gardens: LBH Environmental Services, Parks Services |
| Dates | 1935/6 |
| Designers | H J Mark |
| Listed Structures | LBII: Pinner Court (buildings and lamp posts). Local list: Capel Gardens Nos. 1 to 24 consec., Nos. 26 to 72 even. |
| On National Heritage List for England (NHLE), Parks & Gardens | No |
| Registered common or village green on Commons Registration Act 1965 | No |
| Protected under London Squares Preservation Act 1931 | No |
| Local Authority | Harrow |
| In Conservation Area | No |
| Tree Preservation Order | No |
| Nature Conservation Area | No |
| Green Belt | No |
| Metropolitan Open Land | No |
| Special Policy Area | No |
| Other LA Designation | Open Space |
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Nearby parks and gardens
Pinner New Cemetery was dedicated on 13 May 1933, and was laid out to designs by Borough Architect, S W Richardson. Its entrance is elegantly set back from the road and has stone gate piers, wrought iron gates with lanterns, and a gothic lodge. The axial drive to the chapel is lined with horse chestnut trees and, unusually, deciduous planting strongly predominates in the cemetery. There are a small number of oak trees that pre-date the cemetery and much planting of birch, cypress, sycamore, cherry and hawthorn. Among the monuments there is a notable red granite armchair grave of Susan Dunford, who 'left her chair vacant' in 1954.
Tookes Green is a small triangular green on sloping land at the junction of three roads, with a few trees and seats and bordered with setts, a boulder at each corner. In the centre is a granite drinking fountain on an octagonal stepped base, erected here by the inhabitants of Pinner in 1886 to commemorate William Arthur Tooke, JP who had lived at Pinner Hill House.
Yeading Walk is a linear park that follows part of the Yeading Brook between Rayners Lane in the east and Northumberland Road where the riverside has a formal strip of park with grass, exotic trees and shrubs, several bridges, seating and a linear metalled path. The Yeading Brook then extends south through the borough to Roxbourne Park and the boundary with Hillingdon at Streamside Reservation.