The Orangery And Kitchen Garden Walls, Gates And Gate Piers Approximately 88 Metres To South Of Pitchford Hall

PITCHFORD C.P. PITCHFORD SJ 5204 - 5304 12/142 The Orangery and - kitchen garden walls, gates and-gate piers approx 88 metres to south of Pitchford Hall GV II Orangery, now house, and kitchen garden walls. Mid-to late C18 walls, orangery probably remodelled or rebuilt in the late C19 or early C20. Walls: red brick (Flemish garden wall bond) with red sandstone dressings. Irregular rectangular plan (approximately 50 x 80 metres) with curved corners to west , main entrances to east and west and orangery to north. Approximately 4 metres high. Stone plinth and coping. Central entrance to east with pair of wrought iron gates, square sandstone gate piers with plinths, friezes and pyramidal caps, and flanking walls ramped up to full height with square brick piers, each with moulded stone cornice, cap and carved lion statue; west entrance with pair of boarded gates, square stone gate piers with pyramidal caps, and flanking walls ramped up to full height. Small segmental-headed boarded doors to north-west and south-west. 2 short stubs of wall project from the main circuit to the south. Orangery: painted timber frame with some red brick at rear; hipped stone slate roof with gablets. One storey. Moulded gutter; probably later central brick ridge stack. Pilasters dividing wooden cross-windows with margin lights; 5 windows each side of central French casement with side-lights; 4-window return fronts. One-storey lean-to at rear. Interior: domed ceilings; internal roller blinds; Pitchford Hall (qv) was restored and enlarged in the 1870's and 1880's by George Devey (1820-86) so the rebuilding or remodelling of the orangery might date from that time or soon after. A building on the same site is shown on the tithe map of 1848. Salop Records Office, document no. 3348/T/1-2.

Listing NGR: SJ5272804078