Orchard Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Rossendale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1984. House.
Orchard Cottage
- WRENN ID
- white-chimney-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rossendale
- Constituency
- Rossendale and Darwen MP: Andy MacNae (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Orchard Cottage, 11, Taylor Street, Whitworth
- OS grid reference
- SD 885 177
- Coordinates
- 53.65571, -2.17483
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard Cottage is a house dated 1692, which is indicated by the datestone above the old doorway in the first bay. The exterior is white-painted roughcast, likely over sandstone rubble, and it has a stone slate roof with a chimney at the left gable and another on the ridge where the second and third bays meet. The building has a three-bay plan and is two storeys high.
The first bay features an old doorway with the datestone above, while the second bay has a modern stone porch. There are three windows on the ground floor and four on the upper floor, all with glazing bars. Most of the windows are deeply recessed with chamfered jambs, and some have chamfered heads. In the first bay, there is a square top-hung casement and a two-light window above with a chamfered mullion. The second bay contains a horizontal rectangular window with two square lights and a rectangular mullion, along with two square windows above. The third bay has two lights on each floor, both with chamfered mullions, with the upper window being smaller.
Local climate
Orchard Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2006
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