Orangery at Holywell Hall is a Grade II listed building in the South Kesteven local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 October 1968. Orangery.
Orangery at Holywell Hall
- WRENN ID
- slow-spindle-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Kesteven
- Constituency
- Rutland and Stamford MP: Alicia Kearns (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 October 1968
- Type
- Orangery
- Address
- Orangery at Holywell Hall, Careby Aunby and Holywell
- OS grid reference
- SK 999 160
- Coordinates
- 52.73274, -0.52163
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The orangery at Holywell Hall, built around 1732, is a single-storey structure with a rectangular plan. It is constructed of ashlar and features a shallow hipped slate roof with lead dressings. The front has five bays, with a plinth and Doric columns set in antis. A moulded cornice runs along the top, leading to a plain parapet with ramped side walls. The central entrance consists of glazed double doors topped by a plain overlight, which is adorned with a broken pediment that includes a central bust. On either side of the doors, there are pairs of full-height windows that feature stepped keyblocks.
Local climate
Orangery at Holywell Hall sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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