Orchard Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1986. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Orchard Cottage
- WRENN ID
- scarred-balcony-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Orchard Cottage, 58, Abbey Street, Ickleton, CB10 1SS
- OS grid reference
- TL 490 435
- Coordinates
- 52.0705, 0.17359
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard Cottage is a cottage dating from around 1700 or earlier. It features a timber-framed structure with plaster and a 20th-century brick plinth. The original thatch has been replaced with 20th-century ridged pantiles. The building has a large rebuilt square ridge stack located to the right of the center. It is one storey with an attic and has a three-unit lobby entry plan. The exterior includes a plank door, three ground floor casement windows, and one casement dormer window. Inside, there are chamfer-stopped ceiling beams and sealed hearths.
Local climate
Orchard Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- 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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