Orchard House is a Grade II* listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 October 1951. House, office, veterinary surgery.
Orchard House
- WRENN ID
- slow-minaret-sorrel
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 October 1951
- Type
- House, office, veterinary surgery
- Address
- Orchard House, Priestpopple, Hexham
- OS grid reference
- NY 938 639
- Coordinates
- 54.97046, -2.09742
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard House is a house, now used as an office and veterinary surgery, built around 1825. It has two storeys and is arranged around a courtyard, which is enclosed by a low wall featuring central gate piers and cast iron gates. The south front has a recessed centre with two windows, while the east wing includes a single window above a projecting porch. The south front is made of ashlar stone, while the right wing is rendered with some raised quoins. The building features a moulded eaves cornice and sash windows, with marginal glazing bar sashes on the south front and glazing bar sashes on the east side.
In the northeast corner, there is a closed porch that has an Ionic portico with an entablature on the west side and a niche on the south side. The east wing has a double span gable with three chimneys, a kneeler adorned with a plaster lion couchant, and a single window to the left. The north front of the east wing is constructed of brick and includes chamfered quoins, kneelers, and rusticated headstones, along with a later four-light bay to the right. The rear of the building features ashlar stone at the back of the central portion, which also has an Ionic portico.
Orchard House is part of a group with Nos 14 to 46 (even), including Nos 14 to 18, 26 to 34, and 42 to 46 and 44A, all of which are of local interest.
Local climate
Orchard House receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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