Orangery with front terrace and wall with sphinxes at Trent Park

The Orangery at Trent Park, now part of a music school, was built around 1930 by Colonel R. Cooper for Sir Philip Sassoon. It features early 18th-century sculpture from Wrest Park, Bedfordshire. The structure is made of red brick in Flemish bond with stone dressings and Coade stone sculptures, including sphinxes. The flat roof is concealed by a parapet. The Orangery is one storey high and has five bays, with the end bays canted. Each bay, along with the returned end bays, has a round-arched small-pane French window beneath a fanlight with radial glazing bars. Below the coped parapet is a band that supports three sculptures, each featuring a garlanded urn flanked by cherubs, located at the center and ends of the building. In front of the Orangery is a terrace that can be accessed via four shallow steps. On either side of the steps are low brick walls that curve back to the Orangery, terminating in plinths that hold Coade stone roundels representing the seasons and support the sphinxes, one of which is dated 1787. A late 20th-century addition to the rear of the Orangery is not of special interest. The Orangery is primarily listed for the significance of its 18th-century sculptures.