The Orchards is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1986. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Orchards
- WRENN ID
- drifting-casement-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Orchards, 11, Mill Lane, Sawston, CB22 3HY
- OS grid reference
- TL 485 493
- Coordinates
- 52.1225, 0.16804
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Orchards is a house that may date back to the early 18th century, with some additions from the 19th century. It has a timber-framed structure that is plastered, featuring a 19th-century clay bat and a plastered plinth. The house has a steeply pitched plain tiled roof with end stacks, and the gable extensions have red pantiled roofs. It stands two storeys tall, with an open porch entrance on the left side. The ground floor includes four casement windows and one hung sash window, while the first floor has five casement windows and horizontal sliding sash windows.
Local climate
The Orchards 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2006
- 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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