Orangery, Walls And Gate Piers To East Of Croxdale Hall

CROXDALE AND HETT CROXDALE HALL NZ 2737 17/54 Orangery, walls and 16/10/75 gate piers to east of Croxdale Hall (formerly listed in Sunderland Bridge C.P.) II Orangery, garden walls and gate piers, c.1765. Orangery narrow hand-made brick in irregular. English garden wall bond with stone dressings; ridged concrete roof tiles. Walls have similar brick inner face, coursed rubble outer face and flat stone copings. Similar brick gate piers. North, east and west walls enclose a c.3.7-hectare garden which slopes down from north to south; south side bounded by a serpentine lake; Orangery situated at centre of north wall; pair of gate piers near north-east corner. Palladian style. 2-storey Orangery, of 1 + 3 + 1 bays, has ashlar plinth and raised quoins. Central loggia of 3 tall round arches with raised stone surrounds, impost blocks and keystones. Outer bays, now gardeners' cottages, have Venetian windows with replaced sashes on ground floor and Diocletian windows above with triple keystones. Tall parapet with corniced coping above stone band. Steeply-pitched roof with stone-coped gables and brick end stacks. Lower 2-storey rear with altered fenestration. Large stone flags laid in diamond pattern on floor behind loggia. Very tall garden walls. Double-skin, c.370-metre long north wall was formerly heated. Each half, flanking the Orangery, is canted out at regular intervals to form 4 triangular-plan projections (their purpose to increase the growing area and stabilise the unbuttressed wall). 70-metre long west wall has round- arched doorway to north, large central round archway with chamfered surround on outer face and quadrant ramp down at south. 100-metre long east wall has pair of tall square-plan gate piers with pyramidal stone caps at north. Rubble continuation at south end of east wall and altered lean-to sheds on outer face of north wall are not of special interest.

Listing NGR: NZ2764137796