ORANGERY AT FIXBY HALL

ORANGERY AT FIXBY HALL, FIXBY PARK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1212442
Date first listed:: 18-Mar-1958
List Entry Name:: ORANGERY AT FIXBY HALL
Statutory Address:: ORANGERY AT FIXBY HALL, FIXBY PARK

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Date:: 2007-08-01
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1212442
Date first listed:: 18-Mar-1958
List Entry Name:: ORANGERY AT FIXBY HALL
Statutory Address 1:: ORANGERY AT FIXBY HALL, FIXBY PARK

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:: ORANGERY AT FIXBY HALL, FIXBY PARK

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

District:: Kirklees (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SE1306319680

Details

1. 5113 SE 1319 16/18A 18.3.58

FIXBY PARK Orangery at Fixby Hall

II

2. Probably 1790-1. [In the Thornhill "Labour Accounts for 1787" are payments for digging foundations of the "new stove" and "the Hot House", between 18 December 1790 and 9 May 1791]. Ashlar front. Red brick rear. Hipped slate roof. One storey. 7 bay arcade, 4 arches blocked, 3 with sashes and glazing bars. Continuous plain impost. Moulded eaves cornice and blocking course with 4 garlanded urns, frieze with paterae except over centre 3 bays where it is fluted, and central one bay where it has a die with 4 classical figures in relief holding floral garland. Centre 3 bays break forward slightly and have crowning pediment; tympanum has relief sculpture of palm branches surrounding armorial coat, of Thornhill impaling Lynne (Thomas Thornhill married Eleanor Lynne, of Horsley, Essex in 1780).

Listing NGR: SE1306319680

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Legacy System number:: 339884
Legacy System:: LBS

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