What's an orangery?

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Is it a posh word for a conservatory?

Yup

A poncy wooden greenhouse attached to your house

Somewhere that your plants can live in the winter, so they survive frost. Not for sitting in.

I saw a programme once that said that an orangery has brickwork on the bottom half.
I've only come across these 'oop north' but don't know anyone who admits to having an orangery - is is just estate agents who use the term?

My parents have one! Basically a conservatory but the roof is different apparently .
There's is lovely. No brickwork and we definately sit in it (Biggest room in/on(?) the house)

a beautiful enormous greenhouse, big enough for orange trees to grow in!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orangery

Yes, I know wiki doesn't have all the answers, but I can't be arsed to do a proper google about.

bloody hell

The Orangery at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London, now used as a restaurant:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kew_Gardens_004.JPG

I'd never heard of them until my cousin, who lives 'oop north', began to boast about the 'orangery' on her new house.

Orangery in stately home, yes.

Stuck to the side of a semi, guffaw.

More substantial than a conservatory. Just dontvget Amdega to quote for one

how much Alouiseg?

£87,500. Utter piss taking tosspotts . It will be 6m x 4 m. I winced when we opened the quote which doesn't even include the flooring.

Woooooaah.

that's impressive.. you could build a whole house for less than that!

Yup, dodgy chancers, some poor sap will pay them that though.

Poncetastic word for a conservatory, ime.

I work in building control. We always arf when we get an application for an orangery and it's a small crappy thing on the back of a semi. Delusions of grandeur!

They are different structures Elsie.

I know they're different! But pretty much every application I deal with for an 'orangery' is actually just a conservatory in a posh road .

Mine won't be! Its a proper orangery.

ponce

It's a conservatory with a university degree. Those with a few GCSEs are garden rooms, if they fail it all they're lean-tos.

Where does a summer house fit into all that?

a conservatory for twats who have too much time on their hands and delusions of grandeur.

I prefer a light filled room with a more structured base and roofline to a conservatory. Possbly to be used as a large balcony for a bedroom.

#twat/grandeur

I thought they were big heated rooms that stately homes had so that back int' day the owners could stroll around and admire their collection of tropical plants?