Orchards is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1961. House. 1 related planning application.
Orchards
- WRENN ID
- final-newel-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1961
- Type
- House
- Address
- Orchards, South End, Milton Bryan, MK17 9HS
- OS grid reference
- SP 973 302
- Coordinates
- 51.96187, -0.5844
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchards is a house dating to around 1700, with alterations made in the late 19th century. The earlier part of the house is constructed of red and grey brick, with some exposed timber framing to the left-hand gable. The brickwork on the front of this section appears to conceal an earlier structure. A later cross-wing is built of yellow brick. Both sections have clay tile roofs. The house is arranged in a T-shaped plan, with the cross-wing being taller. The original block has two three-light casement windows on each floor; the ground floor windows have brick surrounds with flat arches. The cross-wing has two two-light casement windows on each floor, each with slightly cambered brick surrounds. All windows are small-paned metal casements. A plank door is located at the junction between the original block and the cross-wing. A timber porch with a tiled, gabled hood is positioned at the entrance. Various yellow brick chimney stacks are present, including an external stack to the left-hand gable of the main block and ridge stacks elsewhere on the building.
Local climate
Orchards sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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