Temple Greenhouse,Croome Park is a Grade I listed building in the Malvern Hills local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1968. A C1760 Lakeside temple, greenhouse, orangery.

Temple Greenhouse,Croome Park

WRENN ID: plain-corridor-thrush
Grade: I
Local Planning Authority: Malvern Hills
Country: England
Date first listed: 25 March 1968
Type: Lakeside temple, greenhouse, orangery
Source: Historic England listing

Description

SO 84 SE CROOME D'ABITOT CROOME COURT

3/1 Temple Greenhouse, Croome Park 25.3.68 (formerly listed as Temple Greenhouse or Orangery, Croome Park) GV 1

Lakeside temple c.1760 by Robert Adam. Bath stone Roman Doric oblong building with central hexastyle portico with pediment richly carved with giant, basket of flowers. Roman Doric pilaster responds and outer angles. Entablature around. Glass screens between columns of c.1800 now removed. To each side a window with glazing bars, originally niches with statues of Ceres and Flora and above relief carved panels. End gables pedimented with arches recess. Design in Soane Museum dated 1760. Dean. HORTUS CROOMENSIS 1824. Grice. TRANS WORCS ARCH SOC 1976 pp 41-51.

Listing NGR: SO8814144996

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