Description

SHOTTESBROOKE SHOTTESBROOKE PARK
SU 87 NW
8/30 Kitchen garden and orchard
walls with attached orangery
07.03.89 and outbuildings south of
Shottesbrooke Park

G.V. II

Kitchen garden and orchard walls with attached orangery and outbuildings, now disused.
C18 and C19. Walls and outbuildings in red and orange bricks in Flemish bond; orangery
in stock brick in Flemish bond. Slate roofs. 2 large rectangles enclosed by walls, the
rectangular enclosure on the south encloses the orchard; the orangery is on the north
side of this enclosure facing south, and the outbuildings are on the north side of the
orangery, and facing east along the east wall of the kitchen garden (northern
enclosure). Walls: chamfered plinth and overhanging weathered top. Nearly 3
metres high. Orangery: rectangular plan. Hipped glass roof. One storey. 3-bay west
front. Moulded brick string at impost level; moulded and dentilled brick eaves
cornice below parapet. Semi-circular headed sash windows with glazing bars and
radiating glazing-bars at head. Lean-to side wings on each side with gauged-brick arch
over doorway on right; similar on left but doorway blocked. Outbuildings: a fruit
store attached to the orangery on the north side. Rectangular plan. 2 storeys.
4-bay north front. Parapet. Segmental-arched heads to openings. Pilasters with
moulded tops reaching to bottom of parapet level. Openings with vertical bars
between pilasters. Planked door in first bay; small openings in second and fourth bays.
Lean-to range of stables and gardeners bothies on east wall. Left (south) part
of stable gabled, projecting, with a blocked semi-circular headed blind opening in
tympanum; 2 openings with vertical bars on each side of wide, planked door. Right
hand gable altered to garages. 2 similar openings and planked doors between gables.
The offices attached on the north are of no special interest.

Listing NGR: SU8412376952

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26410983

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  For the Record
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)