Orchard Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Wychavon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 1972. Cottage.
Orchard Cottages
- WRENN ID
- spare-paling-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wychavon
- Constituency
- West Worcestershire MP: Dame Harriett Baldwin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1972
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Orchard Cottages, 1 and 2, Upper End, Eckington
- OS grid reference
- SO 927 415
- Coordinates
- 52.0723, -2.10718
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard Cottages is a 17th-century cottage located in Eckington. It features a timber frame with whitened brick nogging and a thatched roof, which is adorned with three modern eyebrow dormers. The windows are modern casements, and there is a thatched porch at the entrance.
Local climate
Orchard Cottages receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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