Orchard House is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 June 1984. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Orchard House
- WRENN ID
- sharp-timber-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 June 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Orchard House, 2, Station Road, Waterbeach, CB25 9HT
- OS grid reference
- TL 496 652
- Coordinates
- 52.26479, 0.19165
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard House is a cottage dating from the late 17th century. It features local gault brick gables and a 19th-century gault brick casing over a partly rendered timber frame. The roof is covered with long straw thatch and the building is one storey with an attic. The north-east gable has a tumbled parapet and an end stack, while the south-west gable stack has two diagonal shafts. The facade includes two 19th-century gabled dormer windows with plain tiles and four-paned hung sashes, along with two ground floor six-paned hung sash windows set in segmental brick arches. There is a sealed door and a half-glazed, panelled door. Inside, the cottage features a stop-chamfered cross beam and a timber-framed partition.
Local climate
Orchard House 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 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2024
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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