Orangery to Former Eltham House, Now at North End of Grounds of Number 113 (Southeastern Gas Board) is a Grade II* listed building in the Greenwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1954. A Early Modern Orangery. 1 related planning application.
Orangery to Former Eltham House, Now at North End of Grounds of Number 113 (Southeastern Gas Board)
- WRENN ID
- far-jade-hyssop
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Greenwich
- Constituency
- Eltham and Chislehurst MP: Clive Efford (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1954
- Type
- Orangery
- Period
- Early Modern
- Address
- Orangery to Former Eltham House, Now at North End of Grounds of Number 113 (Southeastern Gas Board), Eltham High Street Se9, SE9 1HN
- OS grid reference
- TQ 428 745
- Coordinates
- 51.45215, 0.05436
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The orangery to the former Eltham House, now located at the north end of the grounds of Number 113 (Southeastern Gas Board), is a late 17th century or early 18th century structure featuring five bays. It is constructed of red brick with stone dressings and a stone plinth. The bays are defined by flat pilasters that have moulded stone bases and capitals, with paired pilasters at the outer corners and one and a half at the sides of the central section. These pilasters support an entablature with triglyphs in the frieze above, a moulded and dentilled brick cornice, and a stone blocking course.
The orangery has large windows fitted with modern casements. The projecting central section is made of multicoloured stock brick combined with red brick, featuring square angle pilasters that rise to stone Corinthian capitals above the roof level of the side sections. These pilasters support entablatures adorned with moulded architraves and trophies in the frieze. The cornices are richly detailed with dentils, egg and dart mouldings, and scrolled modillions with paterae in between. Above, there is an open pediment that is broken back in the center, which contains a round arched niche at the first floor level. This niche has a moulded brick architrave and a gauged brick half dome with a shell shape at the back, resting on a carved stone cornice from the ground floor.
The round arched entrance features red brick pilasters, carved stone impost blocks with short outer bands, a moulded brick architrave, and a keystone with a mask. This entrance supports a flat red brick panel that curves to fill the spandrels. There is a later glazed door and radial fanlight. Additionally, there are two short sections of red brick wall at the northern corners of the orangery on either side. The north face of the orangery is blank.
Local climate
Orangery to Former Eltham House, Now at North End of Grounds of Number 113 (Southeastern Gas Board) sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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