Listed Building: PALM HOUSE TO WEST OF ORANGERY (1139535)

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Grade II*
Authority Department for Culture Media and Sport
Volume/Map/Item 133, 3, 103
Date assigned 20 September 1984
Date last amended

Description

In the entry for: SJ 7481 TATTON TATTON PARK 3/103 Palm House to west of Orangery GV II The grade shall be amended to read Grade II*. SJ 7481 TATTON C.P. TATTON PARK 3/103 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 4 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. 4 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 8 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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Sources (1)

  • Digital Archive: English Heritage. 2005. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. 58478. [Mapped features: #2985 58478; #8291 58478]

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Location

Grid reference Centred SJ 7439 8151 (36m by 24m) (2 map features)
Map sheet SJ78SW
Civil Parish TATTON, MACCLESFIELD, CHESHIRE EAST

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Record last edited

Mar 4 2014 12:00PM