Orchard Cottages

Orchard Cottages is a pair of houses located on Main Street in Long Marston, dating from the 17th century with later alterations and an ex-situ 14th-century window. The buildings are timber-framed with plaster infill and a brick addition on the right end, featuring a coursed rubble wing. They have a steeply pitched renewed tile roof with two brick stacks at the front ridge and end stacks, forming an L-plan.

The exterior is single storey plus attic and has a four-window range. The entrance to the left of center features a 20th-century porch leading to a studded plank door, while the entrance at the right end has a plank door in a pegged frame. The ground floor includes three 3-light casements, one of which is from the 20th century, while the others have small panes and iron opening casements. There are three gabled dormers with 2-light casements, mostly with leaded glazing, and one with a small-paned light. A lean-to rubble oven projection is located to the right of center.

The wing that breaks forward to the left has a coped gable with a fleuron, a 2-light single-chamfered mullioned window with an iron opening casement, and a first-floor traceried 2-light 14th-century window. The left return features a 1950s addition at the left end, with an entrance to the right of center that has a timber lean-to porch and a plank door, along with a 20th-century entrance at the left end. There is a window on each floor at the left end with 20th-century casements, and recessed chamfered-mullioned windows of 2 lights and 4 lights flank the entrance, with the 2-light window truncated by the entrance. Above, there are 2-light and 3-light casements with iron opening casements, the 3-light casement having a moulded timber lintel.

The rear includes a 20th-century flat-roofed outshut with a 2-light leaded casement at the first-floor window, and a projecting single-storey brick wing to the left with segmental-headed windows on the ground floor. The interior has not been inspected but is noted to have exposed beams.