Little Orchard is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 November 1984. House.

Little Orchard

WRENN ID
ragged-tower-furze
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire East
Constituency
Macclesfield MP: Tim Roca (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 November 1984
Type
House
Address
Little Orchard, Holmes Chapel Road, Lower Withington
OS grid reference
SJ 802 715
Coordinates
53.24042, -2.29746
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Little Orchard is a house dated 1667, as indicated by the initials "EB + 1667 XC WO" and a shield with three hearts and a diagonal bar on the gable end bressumer. The building is timber framed with rendered and whitewashed infill and has a slate roof, which was probably originally thatched. It stands two storeys tall.

The entrance front features a slightly projecting gable to the left, originally designed with 4 x 3 cells and an angle brace in the left-hand corner. There is a three-light 20th-century casement window on the ground floor and a two-light similar window on the first floor, along with a V-strut in the gable. To the left, there is a range of 6 x 3 cells with small framing and an angle brace at the right-hand corner. A 20th-century glazed door is set in a 20th-century gabled porch to the right of centre, flanked by three-light 20th-century casement windows. The first floor has gabled dormers with 2-light 20th-century casements and timber-framed gables.

The right-hand gable end features timber framing with angle braces at the corners and an inscribed bressumer above, which supports a Queen-post truss and V-strut in the gable. There is also a 20th-century range to the right with simulated timber framing.

Local climate

Little Orchard sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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