Orangery to Blaise Castle House is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1959. Orangery.

Orangery to Blaise Castle House

WRENN ID
ragged-threshold-khaki
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bristol, City of
Constituency
Bristol North West MP: Darren Jones (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 January 1959
Type
Orangery
Address
Orangery to Blaise Castle House, Henbury Road, BS10 7QS
OS grid reference
ST 562 787
Coordinates
51.50582, -2.63195
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The orangery at Blaise Castle House was built in 1806 by John Nash. It is constructed from limestone ashlar, brick, and features a glass valley roof. The building has a double-depth plan and is a single-storey structure with a seven-window range. The front is concave and includes semicircular arches supported by chamfered Tuscan columns, topped with a cornice. Inside, there are cast-iron stanchions that support the valley box gutter.

Local climate

Orangery to Blaise Castle House receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% 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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