The French House (Orangery in French Garden) is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1968. A Early C19 Summer house.
The French House (Orangery in French Garden)
- WRENN ID
- lesser-rubble-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1968
- Type
- Summer house
- Period
- Early C19
- Address
- The French House (Orangery in French Garden), Maker-With-Rame
- OS grid reference
- SX 455 531
- Coordinates
- 50.35833, -4.17301
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The French House, also known as the Orangery in the French Garden, is a summer house and plant house that dates from the early 19th century. It is rendered and features a slate roof. The structure has an octagonal central room that is flanked by flower houses. It is a single storey building with three bays on each side, canted forward in the center. The windows consist of 28-pane sashes arranged in 8/8/12 panes, and there is a parapet with recessed panels above each window. The roof includes six skylights. Inside, the central room has a coved cornice and an oval ceiling panel.
Local climate
The French House (Orangery in French Garden) sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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