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Complex of three glasshouses: 'Cactus House' at west, erected c. 1854; 'Aquatic House' at centre, erected c. 1890; and 'Fern House' at east c. 1966. All rectangular in plan. M-profile pitched and hipped glass roof to Cactus House, having gablets to west. 'Aquatic House' is timber-framed with triple-span pitched and hipped roof having projecting moulded eaves supported by iron columns, and brown brick chimneystack to north with yellow clay pots, masonry plinth course with projecting coping, brown brick walling to north laid in English garden wall bond abutted by single-pitched lean-to extensions with natural slate roofs. 'Fern House' is metal-framed with double-height mono-pitch roof having single-storey lean-to abutment to south, and is connected to Aquatic House by single-storey flat-roof link having pitched glass roof to north, brown brick walling laid in English garden wall bond and square-headed entrance door with transom light and projecting timber-boarded canopy with metal columns. Located at east side of National Botanic Gardens, immediately east of Curvilinear Range and north of Director's House.
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