Lower Orangery is a Grade I listed building in the Richmond upon Thames local planning authority area, England. A Renaissance Orangery.
Lower Orangery
- WRENN ID
- tired-newel-crimson
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Richmond upon Thames
- Constituency
- Twickenham MP: Munira Wilson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Orangery
- Period
- Renaissance
- Address
- Lower Orangery, Hampton Court
- OS grid reference
- TQ 156 684
- Coordinates
- 51.4031, -0.33859
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lower Orangery at Hampton Court, designed by Sir Christopher Wren for William III, is a Grade I listed building. It is constructed of brown brick with red rubbed brick dressings and features a slate pitched roof. The structure is a single storey and measures 21 bays in length. The walls are filled with low-silled sash windows, which have brick roll-mouldings around their edges. There are doorways located in the fifth, eleventh, and seventeenth bays.
Local climate
Lower Orangery sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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