Palm House to west of Orangery

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1139535
Date first listed:: 20-Sep-1984
List Entry Name:: Palm House to west of Orangery
Statutory Address:: Palm House to west of Orangery

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1139535
Date first listed:: 20-Sep-1984
List Entry Name:: Palm House to west of Orangery
Statutory Address 1:: Palm House to west of Orangery

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Palm House to west of Orangery

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Millington and Rostherne
National Grid Reference:: SJ 74386 81508

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 26 April 2022 to remove superfluous amendment details and to reformat the text to current standards

SJ 7481 3/103

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

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 58478
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 6 Cheshire,

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.