Orleans House The Octagon Room And Service Wing Adjoining

In the entry for 21/58 RIVERSIDE

Orleans House The Octagon Room and Service Wing adjoining The grade shall be mended to read I

1. 5028 RIVERSIDE

Orleans House The Octagon Room and service wing adjoining TQ 1673 21/58 2.9.52

II

1. All that survives of Orleans House is the Octagon Room (with its adjoining service wing); the rest having been demolished in 1927. Orleans House was built in 1710 for James Johnston, Queen Anne's Secretary of State for Scotland. Louis Philippe lived here 1800-14 and 1815-17. In 1720 Johnston employed James Gibbs to add the Octagon for the entertainment of Queen Caroline (George II's wide). Red brick with stone dressings and rubbed brick pilasters at the angles. Large round-arched windows with blocked surrounds and round windows above. Fine Roman baroque interior with plaster figures on pediments of fireplace and doors and busts in round niches above by G Artan and J Bagutti. Illustrated in Gibb's 'Book of Architecture', plate 71. Service wing is a long 2-storey brick range adjoining the Octagon to the west. Door with pediment and rusticated surround. Also to the north a re-built 2-storey wing.

Listing NGR: TQ1687473348