Orchard House is a Grade II listed building in the Rutland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1961. House. 1 related planning application.
Orchard House
- WRENN ID
- eternal-courtyard-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rutland
- Constituency
- Rutland and Stamford MP: Alicia Kearns (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 June 1961
- Type
- House
- Address
- Orchard House, 8, High Street, Ketton
- OS grid reference
- SK 982 048
- Coordinates
- 52.63294, -0.55026
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard House is an 18th-century house consisting of two parts. The original house on the left is built of coursed rubble with ashlar dressings, while the converted outbuilding on the right, which projects slightly and may be of earlier origin, is made of ironstone rubble with ashlar bands. Both sections are topped with a Collyweston stone slate roof featuring ashlar ridge and end stacks. A plain full-length pilaster disguises the change in wall plane, with similar pilasters at either end, although the right-hand one only retains its capital.
The original house is two storeys high with a double front and a three-window range. The central door has been replaced by a window set beneath a lintel with a keystone, flanked by two 19th-century rectangular bay windows with tented roofs. On the first floor, there are three 16-pane sash windows with cills. The outbuilding, likely converted in the 19th century, features two ground-floor 2-light casement windows with glazing bars beneath timber lintels, and three similar windows on the first floor. There are small one-storey additions to the left, right, and rear, with the entrance located at the rear.
Local climate
Orchard House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1999
- 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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