The Orchards is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. House.
The Orchards
- WRENN ID
- dusted-pinnacle-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Luton South and South Bedfordshire MP: Rachel Hopkins (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Orchards, Gaddesden Turn, Billington
- OS grid reference
- SP 941 229
- Coordinates
- 51.89683, -0.63331
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Orchards is a building dating from the 17th to 18th century. It is constructed of brick, featuring some darker headers on the right side, while the right gable end and the central part of the front elevation are made of brick nogged timber frame. The building has two storeys and an old tile roof, but it includes modern windows, a dormer, and a modern porch. There are stacks at each end of the original structure, and a 19th-century extension of one bay has a stack on the left side.
Local climate
The Orchards sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% 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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