Title

The Orangery, Wrest Park House and Gardens, Silsoe, Bedfordshire, 2011

Caption

The Orangery, Wrest Park House and Gardens, Silsoe, Bedfordshire, 2011. Interior view of the Orangery looking out towards the garden with dappled sunlight filtering through the glass roof. The Orangery was designed by Thomas de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey. Exotic fruit and plants were protected from the British winter inside the building. Wrest Park was built in 1834-1839, inspired by 18th-century French chateaux, and is set in over 90 acres of gardens.

Date

2011

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England Archive

Reference

HRM19B06_058

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

58,0Mb (2,3Mb) / 18,8in x 12,0in / 5631 x 3600 (300dpi)

Keywords

park building buildings England interior indoors architecture gardens country sunlight sun pattern airy science solar system astronomy British English color colour windows tiles location century floor Britain inside concept bedfordshire 21st century TILED orangery Patterned 19th century nineteenth century English Heritage Silsoe TGN Wrest Park photograph Thomas Thomas de Grey Thomas de Grey 2nd Earl de Grey de Grey Earl de Grey 2nd Earl de Grey 2010s Historic England Staff Photographer Thomas de Grey 2nd Earl de Grey photograph