Orangery, Screen Wall and Potting Sheds Approximately 200 Metres North East of Heath House is a Grade II* listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 August 1986. Orangery.
Orangery, Screen Wall and Potting Sheds Approximately 200 Metres North East of Heath House
- WRENN ID
- lunar-joist-storm
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Constituency
- Stoke-on-Trent South MP: Dr Allison Gardner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 August 1986
- Type
- Orangery
- OS grid reference
- SK 027 392
- Coordinates
- 52.95105, -1.96044
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The orangery, screen wall, and potting sheds were built around 1830 by James Trubshaw and are located approximately 200 meters northeast of Heath House. The orangery is constructed from yellow sandstone ashlar and features a curved hipped glazed roof supported by cast iron glazing bars. It has a single-storey front on a stepped plinth with five bays. The outer bays project forward and are accentuated with pilasters at the corners, while the inner bays are divided by Ionic half columns. These columns support a deep frieze adorned with lion head corbels and a dentilled cornice, which has a raised step in the center featuring a seated girl with a dog. The front has round-arched openings with moulded imposts and arches, console keystones, and small-pane French casements.
The side elevations include one glazed bay styled similarly to the front, and the rear has a centrally placed entrance beneath the frieze and cornice, set against an otherwise plain facade. The main facade is flanked by screen walls with approximately three bays of recessed panels designed for training fruit espaliers, ending with piers. The rear sides of the screens feature lean-to potting sheds with slate roofs, symmetrically placed, each having two chamfered mullion windows and a boarded door.
Inside, the orangery has a stone flagged floor and plastered walls, though some plaster has been lost. High on the walls, the corbels appear to have supported a former roof but were used to hold fern baskets during the horticultural craze of the mid-19th century. An original drawing of the orangery from 1829, signed by James Trubshaw, exists. While most of the executed design is consistent with the drawing, the screen walls were originally intended to be longer and had urns as finials on the piers. Additionally, the central sculpture was meant to be much larger and depict a reclining figure. Drawings related to the project were in the possession of Mrs. Phillips at Heath House during the resurvey in August 1985.
Local climate
Orangery, Screen Wall and Potting Sheds Approximately 200 Metres North East of Heath House receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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