The Orangery

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.