Description

PITCHFORD C.P. PITCHFORD
SJ 5204 - 5304
12/142 The Orangery and
- kitchen garden walls,
gates and-gate piers
approx 88 metres to
south of Pitchford
Hall
GV II
Orangery, now house, and kitchen garden walls. Mid-to late C18
walls, orangery probably remodelled or rebuilt in the late C19 or early
C20. Walls: red brick (Flemish garden wall bond) with red sandstone
dressings. Irregular rectangular plan (approximately 50 x 80 metres)
with curved corners to west , main entrances to east and west and
orangery to north. Approximately 4 metres high. Stone plinth and
coping. Central entrance to east with pair of wrought iron gates,
square sandstone gate piers with plinths, friezes and pyramidal caps,
and flanking walls ramped up to full height with square brick piers,
each with moulded stone cornice, cap and carved lion statue; west entrance
with pair of boarded gates, square stone gate piers with pyramidal caps,
and flanking walls ramped up to full height. Small segmental-headed
boarded doors to north-west and south-west. 2 short stubs of wall
project from the main circuit to the south. Orangery: painted timber
frame with some red brick at rear; hipped stone slate roof with gablets.
One storey. Moulded gutter; probably later central brick ridge stack.
Pilasters dividing wooden cross-windows with margin lights; 5 windows
each side of central French casement with side-lights; 4-window
return fronts. One-storey lean-to at rear. Interior: domed ceilings;
internal roller blinds; Pitchford Hall (qv) was restored and enlarged
in the 1870's and 1880's by George Devey (1820-86) so the rebuilding
or remodelling of the orangery might date from that time or soon after.
A building on the same site is shown on the tithe map of 1848. Salop
Records Office, document no. 3348/T/1-2.

Listing NGR: SJ5272804078

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26529320

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