Light and airy garden building purpose-built to cultivate orange trees.

Sunny rooms where tropical plants can winter.

An Orangery was a feature of royal and aristocratic residences from the 17th to the 19th centuries. A type of greenhouse, with citrus trees being grown in tubs and wintering under cover, it originated from the Renaissance gardens of Italy, when glass-making technology enabled sufficient expanses of clear glass to be produced. The Orangerie at the Palace of the Louvre, 1617, inspired imitations that were not eclipsed until the development of the modern greenhouse in the 1840s, which was quickly over shadowed by the architecture in glass of Joseph Paxton.