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Palm House to west of Orangery

A Grade II* Listed Building in Tatton, Cheshire East

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.3299 / 53°19'47"N

Longitude: -2.386 / 2°23'9"W

OS Eastings: 374386

OS Northings: 381508

OS Grid: SJ743815

Mapcode National: GBR CYSY.71

Mapcode Global: WH991.BK1M

Plus Code: 9C5V8JH7+WH

Entry Name: Palm House to west of Orangery

Listing Date: 20 September 1984

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1139535

English Heritage Legacy ID: 58478

Also known as: Fernery

ID on this website: 101139535

Location: Mere, Cheshire East, Cheshire, WA16

County: Cheshire East

Civil Parish: Tatton

Traditional County: Cheshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cheshire

Church of England Parish: Rostherne St Mary

Church of England Diocese: Chester

Tagged with: Greenhouse Architectural structure

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TATTON C.P.
TATTON PARK
Palm House to west of Orangery.

GV
II*

c1860. Possibly by Sir Joseph Paxton or G H Stokes. Red brick. English garden wall bond and rendered brick with stone dressings and cast iron and glass roof. L shaped plan formed of square hall at west end with wing of same height to east. Windowless. South facade consists of slightly over four pilaster-buttressed bays of the south wall of the eastern kitchen garden (q.v.). East end of east wing has low C20 glass house abutting. East and west walls of square western hall are rendered and its west and north walls are pilaster buttressed. All the walls save the south and eastern end of the wing have a modillion cornice. Four iron finials to roof of square hall.

Interior: Eastern wing has 5½ bays formed by iron trusses supported on stone corbels. Square western section now has eight arched braces which act as pierced girders at angles and in the centre of each side rising to a glazed central square.

Listing NGR: SJ7438681508

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