Orchard House is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 June 1986. House. 1 related planning application.
Orchard House
- WRENN ID
- scarred-chimney-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 June 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Orchard House, A 691, Shotley Low Quarter, DH8 9TE
- OS grid reference
- NZ 089 527
- Coordinates
- 54.86957, -1.86133
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard House is a house, originally an inn, dating to the mid-18th century with extensions added in the early 19th century. The original part is constructed of coursed rubble, which is whitewashed, with dressings, and has a slate roof and rebuilt yellow brick stacks. The main section is two storeys high with two wide bays. It has a renewed central door within a stone surround, and small-pane iron-framed casement windows with stone surrounds (the lower windows have 54 panes, the upper have 45). The gables are coped and there are end stacks. To the right is a two-storey, two-bay section from the early 19th century, characterised by margined sash windows with 16 panes on each window and tooled lintels with slightly-projecting sills. This section has a coped gable with a brick stack. The rear elevation includes a contemporary outshut and a rear wing to the 18th-century part of the house.
Local climate
Orchard House receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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