Orchard Vale And Orchard Vale Cottage

Orchard Vale and Orchard Vale Cottage is a house dated 1731, featuring the initials J K (for John and Katherine Morpeth) on the door surround, with a rear outshut added around 1790. The cottage may be older and has been altered.

The house is constructed from squared stone with cut dressings and has a graduated Lakeland slate roof. The kitchen wing is made of coursed rubble with tooled dressings and a 20th-century grey tile roof. The cottage is built from squared rubble with large roughly-squared quoins, a Welsh slate roof, and an old brick stack.

On the south elevation, the main block is three storeys high with five symmetrical bays and rusticated quoins. There are four steps leading up to central double panelled doors set in a surround with panelled pilasters. This surround carries a frieze that is broken forward at the ends, with an ashlar panel above. The windows include 12-pane sashes on the ground floor, 8-pane sashes above, and smaller 9-pane sashes alternating with small-paned casements on the second floor, all in raised moulded surrounds with projecting sills. An old sundial is positioned above the window to the left of the door. The gables are coped with moulded kneelers, and the end stacks are stepped, banded, and corniced with panelled shafts. The kitchen wing to the right is two storeys high with one bay and features 16-pane sash windows, a coped right gable with moulded kneelers, and a stepped, banded, and corniced end stack. The cottage to the left is two storeys with three irregular bays, a renewed door, ground floor glazing, and 6-pane Yorkshire sashes above. It has raised reverse-stepped coping to the left and a ridge stack.

On the rear elevation, the main block's outshut displays a Roman altar with a worn inscription built in beneath the stair window.

Inside, the contemporary fittings include two-panel doors, fireplaces, a dentil cornice in the drawing room, and an open-well cut-string stair with moulded newels (the lower ones are fluted), vase-on-urn balusters, a ramped moulded handrail, and a curtail step.