Orangery at Saltram House is a Grade II* listed building in the Plymouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 March 1960. Orangery.
Orangery at Saltram House
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-render-sable
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Plymouth
- Constituency
- South West Devon MP: Rebecca Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 March 1960
- Type
- Orangery
- Address
- Orangery at Saltram House, Merafield Road, City of Plymouth
- OS grid reference
- SX 519 557
- Coordinates
- 50.38269, -4.08442
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The orangery at Saltram House is a Grade II* listed structure located in Plympton, designed in 1773 by Stockman, based on a proposal by landscape designer Richmond. It serves as an orangery for a large country house. The building was damaged by fire in 1932 but has since been restored. It features a wooden structure set on a granite ashlar plinth, topped with a dry slate hipped roof that has a central pediment, all adorned with modillion cornices. The orangery has a rectangular plan and is a single storey with a symmetrical front that has a 2:3:2 bay arrangement. The central bays project forward and are topped with a triangular pediment. Doric columns are present in the central bays, while panelled pilasters flank them. Each bay contains a large hornless sash window with glazing bars above a glazed apron, all topped by a Doric entablature with triglyphs. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Orangery at Saltram House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 77% 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 92% 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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