Orchard House is a Grade II listed building in the Telford and Wrekin local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1974. House. 7 related planning applications.
Orchard House
- WRENN ID
- deep-spandrel-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Telford and Wrekin
- Constituency
- Telford MP: Shaun Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- Orchard House, Church Hill, the Gorge, TF8 7PZ
- OS grid reference
- SJ 671 036
- Coordinates
- 52.62946, -2.48724
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard House is a mid-19th century brick building with stone and yellow brick dressings. The front, facing east, features a slightly gabled central projection with a single casement window and a hood mould above. A doorway is flanked by side lights and topped with a plain fanlight. The end gables are coped, and the side facing the road has two gables, one of which is topped by an obelisk finial. The chimneys are clustered, with cylindrical shafts featuring spiral grooves and chevron patterning. Ornamental tiles and a scalloped apse are also present.
Local climate
Orchard House receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
- 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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