Former Orangery and Adjoining Classroom Block, West of Mansion is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 April 1983. Classrooms.

Former Orangery and Adjoining Classroom Block, West of Mansion

WRENN ID
vacant-paling-poplar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 April 1983
Type
Classrooms
OS grid reference
SP 673 374
Coordinates
52.03099, -1.02025
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The former orangery, now used as classrooms, is located west of The Mansion at Stowe School. It was built in the 18th century and features stucco with ironstone dressings and a slate roof with a parapet. The building is one storey high, with a central block that has three bays and a two-storey pediment that slightly projects. There are five bay flanking wings, and the ground floor is arcaded, although the openings have been filled with modern steel windows. The first floor has three sash windows. The classroom blocks were added in 1923 by Clough Williams Ellis, featuring a central block with a copper domed collonaded cupola. The western block is a replica of the former orangery.

Local climate

Former Orangery and Adjoining Classroom Block, West of Mansion sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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