Orchard House is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1986. House.
Orchard House
- WRENN ID
- riven-remnant-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harborough
- Constituency
- Harborough, Oadby and Wigston MP: Neil O'Brien (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Orchard House, Orchard Lane, Great Glen
- OS grid reference
- SP 656 972
- Coordinates
- 52.56937, -1.03319
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard House is a house built around 1800, constructed from red brick with a Welsh slate roof and brick end stacks. It has three storeys featuring three sash windows on the first floor arranged as 8/8, 6/6, and 8/8, and on the second floor as 4/4, 3/3, and 4/4. The ground floor has an 8/8 sash window on either side of a central six-panelled door with an overlight above. The lower two floors have gauged brick lintels. There is a 20th-century garage on the left end and an extension at the rear. On the right end, Orchard House adjoins Glenn Farmhouse.
Local climate
Orchard House receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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