Description

NOTTINGHAM

SK53NW WOLLATON PARK
646-1/6/740 Camellia house 100m south-west of
12/07/72 Wollaton Hall
(Formerly Listed as:
WOLLATON
The Camelia House at Wollaton Hall)

GV II*

Formerly known as: Conservatory at Wollaton Hall Wollaton.
Camellia house. Dated 1823. By Sir Jeffry Wyatville. Heating
equipment and possibly cast-ironwork, by Harrison of Derby.
Cast-iron structure with fully glazed walls and roofs, and
brick rear walls, rendered. Single storey; 10 bays. Polygonal
plan. Fully glazed walls with glazing bars, divided by
cast-iron Doric columns topped with urns, and cornice with
breaks. East end wall, rendered, with a window in a
round-arched recess under a pediment. North end similar, with
cast-iron double doors and parapet.
INTERIOR is divided by paths flanked by slender cast-iron
columns with lotus-leaf capitals. Over the paths, sheet iron
segmental vaults. The remainder of the roof is hipped. At the
rear, a recess with glazed half-dome, flanked by smaller
niches and freestanding Classical sculptures. 2 similar
figures at the south end, one to north.
This is an early example of a camellia house, and of iron and
glass construction. The camellia was introduced to Europe
c1790.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London:
1979-: 279-280; Hunt P (ed): The Shell Gardens Book: London:
1964-: 102-103).

Listing NGR: SK5321339139

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q86595130

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas