Orangery At Fixby Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1958. Orangerie.
Orangery At Fixby Hall
- WRENN ID
- woven-timber-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1958
- Type
- Orangerie
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
1. 5113 SE 1319 16/18A 18.3.58
FIXBY PARK Orangery at Fixby Hall
II
2. Probably 1790-1. [In the Thornhill "Labour Accounts for 1787" are payments for digging foundations of the "new stove" and "the Hot House", between 18 December 1790 and 9 May 1791]. Ashlar front. Red brick rear. Hipped slate roof. One storey. 7 bay arcade, 4 arches blocked, 3 with sashes and glazing bars. Continuous plain impost. Moulded eaves cornice and blocking course with 4 garlanded urns, frieze with paterae except over centre 3 bays where it is fluted, and central one bay where it has a die with 4 classical figures in relief holding floral garland. Centre 3 bays break forward slightly and have crowning pediment; tympanum has relief sculpture of palm branches surrounding armorial coat, of Thornhill impaling Lynne (Thomas Thornhill married Eleanor Lynne, of Horsley, Essex in 1780).
Listing NGR: SE1306319680
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