Orchard Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. Cottage.

Orchard Cottage

WRENN ID
winter-flue-cobweb
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Cambridgeshire
Constituency
St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
Country
England
Type
Cottage
Address
Orchard Cottage, 24, High Street, Croxton, PE19 6SX
OS grid reference
TL 248 597
Coordinates
52.22191, -0.17339
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Orchard Cottage is a row of three cottages that have been combined into a single dwelling. It dates from the 17th century and features a timber frame that is cased in 19th-century brick, with the cottage to the south possibly being rebuilt. The north gable has some timber framing that is partly plastered, while the rest is in 19th-century brick. The roof is thatched with long straw and is half-hipped to the north, while the south side has a slate roof with an end stack. There are two local brick ridge stacks. The building has two storeys, one storey, and an attic. The front has three boarded doors set in segmental brick arches, each with gabled canopies supported by shaped brackets. There are four pivot-hung sash windows and one casement window on the ground floor, along with two first-floor casement windows and three small hung sash attic windows.

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 98% 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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 0.4°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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