Orchard House

Orchard House is a house dating from the 16th or 17th century, which was partly rebuilt in the 18th century and remodelled and extended in the 19th century. It features a timber frame faced in Flemish bond brick, with some areas using brick with burnt headers, and has Welsh slate roofs with gabled ends. The house has a three-room plan with a fourth room in a wing at the back on the right side. The centre and right-hand bays are timber-framed, with the centre bay containing a small stack bay on the left and a lobby entrance at the front. The right-hand bay has a cellar below and was built out later at the front. The left end was rebuilt in brick around the 18th century. In the 19th century, the rest of the house was faced in brick, and a wing was added at the rear.

The exterior is two storeys high and has an asymmetrical three-window north front, featuring two and three-light casements with glazing bars and cambered brick arches. The right end projects and has a 19th-century 20-pane sash window on the ground floor, while the left side displays a diaper pattern in the brickwork. There is a four-panel door to the left of centre with a gabled canopy. The rear has three-light casements and doorways with cambered brick arches. The west side has casements and a 19th-century 20-pane sash window.

Inside, the centre room has broad joists and an axial beam, both chamfered with long hollow step stops. The beam is supported on a post with a moulded head and features a large fireplace with an unchamfered elm lintel. The right-hand bay is divided axially, with the rear containing large unchamfered joists and exposed wall framing, and a cellar below with a chamfered beam. The left room is partitioned. The rear wing has a chamfered axial beam with run-out stops. The centre and right chambers display exposed wall framing with tension braces, jowled posts, and partitions with exposed frames.