This view shows the boundary walls to the front and side of The Tower, a Victorian villa near Barnes Bridge on the The Terrace, which runs alongside the Thames in the Barnes Green conservation area of Richmond-upon-Thames. The Terrace has a number of eighteenth and nineteenth-century houses of exceptional quality. The Tower, part of which is shown to the left, is listed locally as a Building of Townscape Merit and is believed to have been built sometime between 1867 and 1891 in the grounds of Elm Bank House, described as one of the most imposing houses on The Terrace, which was demolished. Elm Bank Mansions of 1908, just visible above the wall to the right, now stands in its place. The stucco front boundary wall of The Tower has a line of three piers, the corner one having an ornate finial resembling a Grecian urn, partly cropped from the picture. A lower section of wall reveals a hedge and a matching pier and finial is visible to the far corner of Elm Bank Gardens beyond. To the left of view, the boundary wall to the side of the property is in brick and almost as high as the modern cycling prohibited sign placed next to the wall in the bollarded passage known as Long Walk, which runs beyond The Tower parallel to the railway line to Westfields Avenue. The modern steel lamp post shown, still stands in front of the corner pier today, and additional communications and data boxes have since been added to the one shown in the passageway.