Orchard Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Malvern Hills local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1988. House. 3 related planning applications.
Orchard Cottage
- WRENN ID
- heavy-gateway-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Malvern Hills
- Constituency
- West Worcestershire MP: Dame Harriett Baldwin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Orchard Cottage, Leigh, WR6 5LA
- OS grid reference
- SO 778 535
- Coordinates
- 52.17959, -2.3258
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard Cottage is a 17th-century house in Leigh, Shropshire. It is a timber-framed building with a tile roof. The frame is composed of three rows of square panels. The house is one storey high with an attic. Windows, spaced irregularly, are positioned to the left and right of the porch, with two windows to the left and one to the right, flanking two small 20th-century canted bay windows. Three attic dormers are present. A chimney is located on the left side of the building.
Local climate
Orchard Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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