Orchard House is a Grade II listed building in the North Kesteven local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 May 1985. A C18 House.
Orchard House
- WRENN ID
- hollow-beam-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Kesteven
- Constituency
- Sleaford and North Hykeham MP: Dr Caroline Johnson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 May 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Orchard House, Princes Street, Metheringham
- OS grid reference
- TF 068 613
- Coordinates
- 53.13903, -0.4049
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard House is a house dating from the late 18th century. It is constructed of coursed rubble and features a pantile ridge roof, with two white brick gable stacks and a single ridge stack. The entrance is off-centre and includes a 20th-century gabled porch and a 20th-century door with a rectangular overlight. The ground floor has three glazing bar sash windows, and there are three more glazing bar sash windows on the floor above.
Local climate
Orchard House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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