Orangery Approx 40 Yards West of Close House is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 April 1969. Orangery.
Orangery Approx 40 Yards West of Close House
- WRENN ID
- ghost-casement-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 April 1969
- Type
- Orangery
- OS grid reference
- NZ 126 658
- Coordinates
- 54.98726, -1.80361
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The orangery, located approximately 40 yards west of Close House, was built in 1779 and is designed in a classical style. It is constructed from ashlar and glass and is a single storey building with five bays. The front of the orangery is slightly bowed and features paired Tuscan columns at the corners, with single Tuscan columns between the bays. In the center bay, there is a half-glazed, two-leaf door. The building has renewed full-length 24-pane sash windows and a hipped glazed roof that retains its original glazing.
Local climate
Orangery Approx 40 Yards West of Close House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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