Palm House to west of Orangery

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SJ 7481 3/103

TATTON C.P. TATTON PARK Palm House to west of Orangery.

GV II*

c1860. Possibly by Sir Joseph Paxton or G H Stokes. Red brick. English garden wall bond and rendered brick with stone dressings and cast iron and glass roof. L shaped plan formed of square hall at west end with wing of same height to east. Windowless. South facade consists of slightly over four pilaster-buttressed bays of the south wall of the eastern kitchen garden (q.v.). East end of east wing has low C20 glass house abutting. East and west walls of square western hall are rendered and its west and north walls are pilaster buttressed. All the walls save the south and eastern end of the wing have a modillion cornice. Four iron finials to roof of square hall.

Interior: Eastern wing has 5½ bays formed by iron trusses supported on stone corbels. Square western section now has eight arched braces which act as pierced girders at angles and in the centre of each side rising to a glazed central square.

Listing NGR: SJ7438681508