Orchard Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1984. A C18 Cottage.
Orchard Cottage
- WRENN ID
- strange-spandrel-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Orchard Cottage, 6, Luton Road, Wilshamstead
- OS grid reference
- TL 063 435
- Coordinates
- 52.07984, -0.44885
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard Cottage is a 18th-century cottage located on Lyton Road in Wilstead. The building features colourwashed plaster over a timber frame and has a thatched roof. It has a three-room plan and consists of one storey with attics. The northeast elevation includes two 2-light casement windows and a plank door. There is one red brick ridge stack and another red brick stack at the northwest gable end. A 20th-century flat-roofed addition is present at the southeast gable end.
Local climate
Orchard Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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