Orchard Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1986. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Orchard Cottage
- WRENN ID
- heavy-oriel-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 April 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Orchard Cottage, 1, Burrell Way, Balsham, CB21 4DY
- OS grid reference
- TL 589 507
- Coordinates
- 52.13227, 0.32084
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard Cottage is a cottage, possibly originally two dwellings, dating from the 18th century. The building is timber-framed with rendered plaster walls and a long-straw thatched, half-hipped roof. It has two 19th-century ridge stacks. The cottage is one storey and has an attic with two dormers. The ground floor has four modern casement windows, with one on the east end possibly replacing a former doorway. A modern porch is located at the west end, concealing the doorway. Internally, the cottage features two back-to-back hearths, plain heads to posts, and shallow wall bracing. A draft Enclosure Award Map from 1801, known as the C.R.O. map, indicates the building’s historical context.
Local climate
Orchard Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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