The Orangery and Kitchen Garden Walls, Gates and Gate Piers Approximately 88 Metres to South of Pitchford Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1986. Orangery, garden walls.
The Orangery and Kitchen Garden Walls, Gates and Gate Piers Approximately 88 Metres to South of Pitchford Hall
- WRENN ID
- ragged-outpost-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1986
- Type
- Orangery, garden walls
- OS grid reference
- SJ 527 041
- Coordinates
- 52.63277, -2.69954
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Orangery and kitchen garden walls, gates, and gate piers are located approximately 88 metres south of Pitchford Hall. The orangery, now a house, and the kitchen garden walls date from the mid to late 18th century, while the orangery itself was likely remodelled or rebuilt in the late 19th or early 20th century.
The walls are constructed of red brick in a Flemish garden wall bond, with red sandstone dressings. They have an irregular rectangular plan measuring approximately 50 by 80 metres, featuring curved corners to the west and main entrances to the east and west. The walls stand about 4 metres high, with a stone plinth and coping. The central entrance on the east side has a pair of wrought iron gates and square sandstone gate piers, which include plinths, friezes, and pyramidal caps. Flanking walls ramp up to full height with square brick piers, each topped with a moulded stone cornice, cap, and a carved lion statue. The west entrance features a pair of boarded gates, square stone gate piers with pyramidal caps, and flanking walls that also ramp up to full height. There are small segmental-headed boarded doors located to the north-west and south-west, and two short stubs of wall project from the main circuit to the south.
The orangery itself has a painted timber frame with some red brick at the rear and a hipped stone slate roof with gablets. It is a single storey building with a moulded gutter and likely has a later central brick ridge stack. The façade is divided by pilasters, featuring wooden cross-windows with margin lights; there are five windows on each side of a central French casement with side-lights, and four-window return fronts. At the rear, there is a one-storey lean-to.
Inside, the orangery has domed ceilings and internal roller blinds. Pitchford Hall was restored and enlarged in the 1870s and 1880s by George Devey, suggesting that the rebuilding or remodelling of the orangery may date from that time or shortly thereafter. A building on the same site is depicted on the tithe map of 1848.
Local climate
The Orangery and Kitchen Garden Walls, Gates and Gate Piers Approximately 88 Metres to South of Pitchford Hall receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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