The Summer House (The Orangery) is a Grade II* listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1997. A Georgian Orangery.
The Summer House (The Orangery)
- WRENN ID
- fossil-wall-flax
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1997
- Type
- Orangery
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- The Summer House (The Orangery), Shirburn
- OS grid reference
- SU 693 961
- Coordinates
- 51.6602, -0.99949
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Summer House, also known as The Orangery, is an orangery built between 1720 and the 1740s. It features an ashlar front, a brick rear wall, and a lead semi-domical roof. The building has a semi-circular plan and includes a Roman Doric tetrastyle portico at the front, which is adorned with a triglyph frieze and a pediment topped with acroteria. Large three-stage sash windows with small panes are positioned between the columns. Inside, the walls are plastered. The Orangery was possibly constructed by Sir Thomas Parker, the First Earl of Macclesfield, or by his son George, the Second Earl, during the 1730s or 1740s.
Local climate
The Summer House (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 80% 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 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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