Orchard Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Orchard Cottage
- WRENN ID
- long-gravel-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1982
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Orchard Cottage, the Street, Salcott, CM9 8HL
- OS grid reference
- TL 949 136
- Coordinates
- 51.7873, 0.82524
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard Cottage is a 17th century timber-framed and plastered cottage with a red plain tile roof, standing two storeys high. It features a three-window range of double-hung vertical sliding sashes at the first floor level, while modern casements are located below. The cottage retains its original central chimney stack. There is a modern porch and an extension at the east end.
Local climate
Orchard Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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 — 14 transactions since 1996
- 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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