Orangery With Flanking Walls, Botheys, Glasshouse And Pavilions

This is an orangery with flanking walls, botheys (small greenhouses), a glasshouse, and pavilions, likely dating from around 1785 and possibly designed by William Belwood for Sir John Ingilby. It was altered between 1817 and 1840 for Sir William Amcotts Ingilby, with the glasshouse probably added around 1840. The construction is primarily ashlar, with coursed squared gritstone, and glazing; the orangery roof was replaced in the mid-20th century.

The structure consists of a prominent, five-bay by two-bay, single-story orangery, set between garden walls. The walls originally had lean-to glasshouses attached, but the left-hand one has been removed. The flanking walls terminate in two-bay single-story pavilions, all built in a matching Classical style. The north side of the walls includes a range of lean-to botheys and garden stores.

The orangery features full-height, round-arched windows with fanlights, the central one including a glazed door. Fluted Ionic pilasters are positioned between the windows, supporting a moulded entablature and modillioned cornice topped by a parapet with blocking pieces and wooden vase balusters. The flanking walls are approximately 4 meters high, with flat ashlar capping. The pavilions have similar window detailing to the orangery; the west pavilion has rounded panes in its fanlights, while the east pavilion has blocked windows. Their parapets are crowned with boar and squirrel finials.

The rear of the orangery has a central glazed double door with a fanlight within an architrave. Two flights of cantilevered steps, with a cyma moulded underside and a plain iron railing, extend against the side walls of the flanking botheys, curving to rise against the rear wall, meeting above the doorway at a gate and providing access to the roof. The gateway is flanked by large squirrel and boar finials. The botheys and potting sheds have simple board doors and small-paned sliding sash windows, with corrugated asbestos roofing.

Inside the west pavilion is a fireplace constructed from black and white marble, incorporating fluted Ionic columns and a shield displaying boar and squirrel badges. The gardens were remodelled, incorporating woodland walks, but in 1847 Sir William Ingilby viewed the hothouses as an unnecessary expense and suggested his successor should dismantle them. The west pavilion was used as a tea room, and the east pavilion was converted into a squash court during the mid-20th century.