Orangery vs single story extension

longwalks1

Our 1930’s semi has already been extended out the back of the house, full width and goes out 3.5m (pretty much every house in our street has the same extension). We’d like to go out a further 3.5m, half width of the house (the side joined to next door) and can’t decide between an orangery, or a normal extension. Some questions:

1) will planning permission be just as easy/hard to get for either orangery or extension?

2) are modern orangery’s as warm during the winter as a normal extension? It would have 2 sides almost all glass, one brick wall and 4th side would be the join to the house

Will no doubt ask other questions along the way

Doozergirl

I'm sure you will ask more questions along the way. I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say that you have been asking questions about this for years.

I don't mind giving people advice, but when it's over and again and it seems that the person takes far more from the forum than they give, I lose patience a bit. If you were serious, you'd take professional advice somewhere along the line and probably have built it.

You've been on this board long enough to take soenthing from it other than from your own threads. And I'm pretty sure there's some sensible information containe din the answer to your previous posts.

An 'orangerie' is some new fangled horse-manure word for a conservatory, devolved from something slightly more impressive. 20 years I've been doing this now and it's only popped up in the last five as something that isn't a truly specialist building. I don't know what regular people talk about when they talk about orangeries. It's just spin.

I have a client with a proper orangerie. It's an architectural beauty, a listed glasshouse, close to 200 years old, bigger than my first flat with plants growing in it. It's stunning but I know it certainly isn't what most people talk about!

Aylesbury_Duck

britishboy wrote: »

Our 1930’s semi has already been extended out the back of the house, full width and goes out 3.5m (pretty much every house in our street has the same extension). We’d like to go out a further 3.5m, half width of the house (the side joined to next door) and can’t decide between an orangery, or a normal extension. Some questions:

1) will planning permission be just as easy/hard to get for either orangery or extension?

2) are modern orangery’s as warm during the winter as a normal extension? It would have 2 sides almost all glass, one brick wall and 4th side would be the join to the house

Will no doubt ask other questions along the way

I think Doozergirl is being a little harsh. I like to encourage home-growing and sustainable living, as well as healthy eating and an orangery is perfect for both.

Some of the questions you will probably need to ask:

Which varieties of orange do you intend to grow? That will determine whether your proposed orangery is of the right orientation and with sufficient glazing.

How does one stop soil transfer to the rest of the house? Orangeries have an earth floor so you would be wise to invest in some decent door mats.

Have you got a ready source of water in the proposed space? Fruit trees will need lots of watering in the warmer months.

parking_question_chap

Unless you live in a huge manor house, its a conservatory, not an orangery.

VfM4meplse

Aylesbury_Duck wrote: »

I think Doozergirl is being a little harsh. I like to encourage home-growing and sustainable living, as well as healthy eating and an orangery is perfect for both.

Some of the questions you will probably need to ask:

Which varieties of orange do you intend to grow? That will determine whether your proposed orangery is of the right orientation and with sufficient glazing.

How does one stop soil transfer to the rest of the house? Orangeries have an earth floor so you would be wise to invest in some decent door mats.

Have you got a ready source of water in the proposed space? Fruit trees will need lots of watering in the warmer months.

I have some oranges that have been sitting in my fridge for a while. Perhaps the time has come to eat them?

I may even plant the pips as I have a lovely south facing conservatory that may encourage a second generation. Then I might honestly claim to have an orangery