Orangery, About 50 Metres East Of Hestercombe House

The orangery, located about 50 metres east of Hestercombe House, was built between 1904 and 1909 by Edwin Lutyens for the Hon E W B Portman. It is constructed from ashlar Ham stone with a coursed rubble plinth, quoins, and spandrels made from locally quarried slate. The building features coped verges, broken pediment gable ends, and modillion eaves to the soffit, topped with concrete pantiles.

The plan is a single cell in the flarogue style, and it is a single storey. The outer bays have rusticated surrounds to niches, with blank panels above. The central section includes three round-headed, multi-paned windows that extend to the plinth and have pivotal heads. On either side of the central bay are two square-headed, multi-paned doors with scroll keystones, and circular niches are positioned above. The west end has a coat of arms in the apex of the pediment, and carved garlands drape from the tympanum to the keystones of the single round-headed full-length windows in the gable ends.

Inside, there is a fine pair of moulded urns set in semi-circular headed niches flanking a bolection moulded fireplace. This structure is considered a "jeu d'esprit" in the baroque manner by Lutyens.