The Orangery, Attached To The South West Corner Of Ven House

The Orangery, attached to the southwest corner of Ven House, was built between 1835 and 1836 by Decimus Burton. It features an ashlar Ham stone base and piers, with a pitched timber and glass roof. The structure has a rectangular plan measuring three bays by three and a half bays. The piers are adorned with Corinthian columns that support a full entablature, and there are urns on the coping of the central eastern bays. The orangery has 30-pane deep sash windows, with double windows on all but the first and fifth bays on the east face, and matching doors in the third bay on the south face and the center bay on the east face. The west wall is made of solid brickwork. Inside, there is a timber trussed roof and a raised earth bed in the center of the orangery. Access is provided by a covered staircase approach from the northwest. This building is part of the setting for an important country house.