Title

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

Caption

The Orangery, Wrest Park House and Gardens, Silsoe, Bedfordshire, c2000s(?). Exterior view of the orangery designed by Thomas de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey. Exotic fruit and plants were protected from the British winter in the orangery. Wrest Park was built in 1834-1839, inspired by 18th-century French chateaux, and is set in over 90 acres of gardens.

Date

2000

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England Archive

Reference

HRM19B06_172

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,1Mb (2,5Mb) / 17,1in x 11,4in / 5128 x 3414 (300dpi)

Keywords

exterior park building buildings England architecture gardens country British English color colour location century Britain outside bedfordshire 21st century orangery 19th century nineteenth century English Heritage 2000s Silsoe TGN Wrest Park photograph Unknown Thomas Thomas de Grey Thomas de Grey 2nd Earl de Grey de Grey Earl de Grey 2nd Earl de Grey Thomas de Grey 2nd Earl de Grey photograph