Orangery, Flaxley Abbey

The Orangery at Flaxley Abbey is a late 17th-century structure built of brick in a variation of Flemish bond, with a back wall made of rubble stone and a slate roof. It is a long and narrow single-storey room located on the site of the north walk of the Abbey cloister. The front features seven windows, with a central French door; the windows are sash types, dating from late 18th to early 19th century, and are four panes wide with flat heads and rubbed brick arches. The building has a plain parapet and a hipped roof.

Internally, the Orangery consists of a single plastered room with a plastered barrel-vaulted ceiling. On the back north wall at the east end, there is the base of a 12th-century door that once connected the nave to the cloister, flanked by the lower parts of columns at each side. The rear wall includes remains of the south wall of the church. A room to the west was rebuilt in the 1960s. The Orangery is depicted in a Kyp engraving of the house from 1712 and contains three stone coffin lids that were found on the site of the Chapter House.