The Orangery is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1984. House.
The Orangery
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-roof-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire MP: Olivia Bailey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Orangery, Basildon
- OS grid reference
- SU 609 785
- Coordinates
- 51.50253, -1.12369
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Orangery is a building that has been converted into a house, dating from around 1843 and likely designed by J.B. Papworth. It is constructed of red brick and features three large arched recesses with stone dressings, including architraves and moulded imposts. The building has a string course, cornice, and a coped parapet above a hipped slate roof. It is a single storey structure. The outer arches contain two 20th-century plate glass windows with overlights, while the central arch features a 20th-century six-panelled door with a three-light overlight above it. The building has set back flanking wings that have shaped coped parapets. To the right, there is a blank semi-circular arch, and to the left, a 20th-century door is located within a semi-circular archway.
Local climate
The Orangery sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
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