Orangery is a Grade II listed building in the Stratford-on-Avon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1997. Tea room.

Orangery

WRENN ID
muted-string-bittern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Stratford-on-Avon
Constituency
Stratford-on-Avon MP: Manuela Perteghella (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 March 1997
Type
Tea room
Address
Orangery, Charlecote Park
OS grid reference
SP 259 564
Coordinates
52.20603, -1.6211
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The orangery at Charlecote Park, built in 1857, now serves as a tea room. It likely was designed by John Gibson. The structure is made of brick with ashlar dressings and features a hipped parapeted roof with a skylight.

The exterior is a single-storey, symmetrical five-bay range, topped with a bracketed cornice and a parapet that displays pierced strapwork patterns similar to those found on the south wing of Charlecote Park. It has large ovolo-moulded cross-mullion windows, each with pairs of narrow plate-glass sashes. The entrance includes paired glazed doors topped by a similar overlight.

Inside, there are four cast-iron posts that support tie-beam trusses, along with a spine beam and raking struts. The roof is boarded and features a central skylight. The rear wall has two 20th-century openings, and there is a large round plaque with a grotesque mask at one end. The property is owned by the National Trust.

Local climate

Orangery receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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