The Orangery is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1988. House. 13 related planning applications.
The Orangery
- WRENN ID
- keen-brick-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Orangery, Hollow Road, Kelvedon, CO5 9DG
- OS grid reference
- TL 846 195
- Coordinates
- 51.84367, 0.67901
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Orangery is a service wing of a mansion, now used as a house. It was built around 1750 for John Williams and was converted in the 20th century. The building is constructed of red brick in a Flemish bond, with a slate roof. It has a rectangular plan and its main entrance faces northeast. There are three brick stacks: a central one, and two internal stacks against the front wall, one near the left end and one at the right end. The building is single-storey, with a hipped roof to the right and an attached 19th-century single-storey range beyond, partly used as a garage.
The ground floor has four 12-light sash windows with flat arches formed of gauged brick. These windows are set back in recesses with semi-circular arches of gauged brick. There is a dummy window in front of the central stack, also set back in a similar recess. A blocked recess is filled by a 20th-century flat-roofed porch with an entrance on the left. The first floor has four 6-light sash windows and two blank apertures, all with flat brick arches. A plain string course runs along the building’s height. The roof has a shallow pitch.
The southwest (garden) elevation features five 20th-century French windows and one original sash window, all within original openings with flat brick arches and recessed semi-circular arches. The first floor of this elevation has six original sash windows with crown glass. An attached brick garden wall projects forward at the left end. Attached to the right end is a wall extending sideways to connect the Orangery with Felix Hall.
Local climate
The Orangery sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 13 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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