Orangery About 15 Metres North East of Hamswell House is a Grade II listed building in the South Gloucestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 1985. A Georgian Orangery.
Orangery About 15 Metres North East of Hamswell House
- WRENN ID
- proud-hammer-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Gloucestershire
- Constituency
- Thornbury and Yate MP: Claire Young (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 August 1985
- Type
- Orangery
- Period
- Georgian
- OS grid reference
- ST 732 715
- Coordinates
- 51.44199, -2.38672
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The orangery, located about 15 metres northeast of Hamswell House, dates from the late 18th century and underwent alterations around 1930. It is constructed from limestone ashlar, freestone, and rubble on the sides and rear, topped with a hipped double Roman tiled roof that features a capped stack at the rear. The building has a rectangular plan.
The south front showcases an arcade of five round-headed openings, with a central 9-pane glass door that has radial glazing bars in the fanlight. There are two sash windows on each side, featuring splayed glazing bars in the top sections, all set within moulded surrounds. A cornice is partly concealed by the eaves. The east elevation includes a blocked window, while the rear has a blocked door.
Inside, there is a bolection moulded stone fireplace and a finely carved wooden niche with a shell hood, foliate key, carved spandrels, and a frieze at the top. The niche has shaped shelves with a pierced carved panel below, both of which may have been removed from the interior of Hamswell House and reset in this orangery.
Local climate
Orangery About 15 Metres North East of Hamswell House receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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