The Orangery

ST GILES STEVENSTONE PARK SS 52 19 IN THE WOOD 17/219 The Orangery 4.10.60 (formerly listed as Second pavilion or green house at Stevenstone)

GV II*

Former Orangery. Orangery is circa 1720, railings are circa 1872-3, carefully renovated circa 1980 by the Landmark Trust. The front is Flemish bond red brick, the rest is local stone rubble; stone rubble stack with moulded limestone coping; slate roof, formerly glass. Plan: Single cell rectangular plan building facing south-south-west, say south. Orangery is a tall single storey, 1-room plan building. The glass roof was replaced with slate circa 1980. Exterior: A very attractive 5-window front of very tall round-headed sash windows with thick glazing bars, all with rubbed brick flat-headed arches with limestone keystones. The centre one lower sash has a panelled base down to ground level and is in fact a doorway. The 2 windows each side have bull-nosed limestone sills. Timber eaves cornice includes a plain modillion frieze. The right (east) end includes a full height window blocked with C20 brick. Roof is hipped both ends. Interior is plastered including a plaster ceiling. There was formerly a glass roof supported on late C19 cast iron trusses. This was replaced circa 1980 and the late C19 roof structure is erected in the garden on brick pilers, approximately 20 metres west of the Orangery. Adjoining to right rear and extending eastwards stone rubble sleeper walls with limestone coping and spearheaded railings with large standards with gadrooned finials and gate in same style. Although the Rolle mansion, Stevenstone House (q.v.), is now in ruins, the Orangery forms part of a group of attractive subsidary buildings, several of which are listed. Futhermore if it was as it seems, an Orangery from the start, then it is a very early example. Source: Devon SMR. ed. Christine Haslam. The Landmark Handbook (1988) pp 77-79.

Listing NGR: SS5269619380