Wall, Gatepiers and Gates Extending to Approximately 100 Metres North, East and West of Drayton House, and Attached Orangery is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 July 1987. A C18 Wall, gatepiers, gates, orangery.

Wall, Gatepiers and Gates Extending to Approximately 100 Metres North, East and West of Drayton House, and Attached Orangery

WRENN ID
muffled-rood-willow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Northamptonshire
Constituency
Corby and East Northamptonshire MP: Lee Barron (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 July 1987
Type
Wall, gatepiers, gates, orangery
OS grid reference
SP 962 799
Coordinates
52.40948, -0.586
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The structure consists of walls, gatepiers, gates, and an attached orangery, likely built in the early 18th century for the Duchess of Norfolk and Sir John Germain, with some restoration in the 19th century. The walls are made of squared coursed limestone, while the gatepiers are crafted from ashlar stone. The wrought-iron gates feature leaf decorations and scroll panelled standards, and are set between rusticated ashlar gatepiers with columns and moulded cornices. A square-headed gateway in the west wall is flanked by decorated pilasters. Iron railings at the south end of the west wall are mounted on a retaining wall.

The orangery, attached to the south end of the east wall, was originally a single-storey structure with a four-window range. It has a central arch-headed doorway with a rusticated surround, tall casement windows with glazing bars, and moulded stone architraves. The roof features an ashlar parapet and gabled design with ashlar gable parapets. The interior has been partially converted into 20th-century changing rooms but retains original roof trusses. A wall to the south of the orangery includes an attached rusticated ashlar gatepier. These walls enclose three sides of the gardens to the north and northeast of Drayton House, which are included in the Historic England Register of Parks and Gardens at grade I.

Local climate

Wall, Gatepiers and Gates Extending to Approximately 100 Metres North, East and West of Drayton House, and Attached Orangery sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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