Orchard Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Malvern Hills local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 May 1984. House. 2 related planning applications.
Orchard Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tilted-balcony-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Malvern Hills
- Constituency
- West Worcestershire MP: Dame Harriett Baldwin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 May 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Orchard Cottage, Longdon, GL20 6AL
- OS grid reference
- SO 851 346
- Coordinates
- 52.01015, -2.21796
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard Cottage is a 17th-century house that features a timber-framed structure with painted brick and a plain tile roof. The building has a rendered stack at the south end and consists of one storey with an attic. There are two gabled dormers on the front and one on the rear. The ground floor includes a tiled porch with a pair of casement windows on each side. A modern extension has been added to the south.
Local climate
Orchard Cottage receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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