The Orangery, Attached to the South West Corner of Ven House is a Grade I listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1961. A C19 Orangery.
The Orangery, Attached to the South West Corner of Ven House
- WRENN ID
- little-joist-gilt
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1961
- Type
- Orangery
- Period
- C19
- OS grid reference
- ST 680 184
- Coordinates
- 50.96452, -2.45687
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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.
Local climate
The Orangery, Attached to the South West Corner of Ven House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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