Orchard Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wakefield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 February 1979. A Georgian Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Orchard Cottage
- WRENN ID
- winter-glass-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Ossett and Denby Dale MP: Jade Botterill (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1979
- Type
- Cottage
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Orchard Cottage, Barnsley Road, WF2 6AT
- OS grid reference
- SE 341 180
- Coordinates
- 53.65754, -1.48406
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard Cottage is a late 18th century or early 19th century Gothick cottage located on Barnsley Road. The building is two storeys high and features two windows. It is constructed from coursed squared stone and has a stone flagged roof with a moderate pitch, complemented by end chimneys. The cottage has pointed arched windows and a glazed central door that is situated under a modern glazed loggia.
Local climate
Orchard Cottage receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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