Orchard Croft is a Grade II listed building in the Harlow local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1998. Crescent of houses. 4 related planning applications.
Orchard Croft
- WRENN ID
- nether-steel-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harlow
- Constituency
- Harlow MP: Chris Vince (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1998
- Type
- Crescent of houses
- Address
- Orchard Croft, 3-12, Mardyke Road, CM20 3BA
- OS grid reference
- TL 460 106
- Coordinates
- 51.77505, 0.11614
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard Croft is a crescent of houses built between 1952 and 1953, designed by Frederick Gibberd as part of the Harlow Design Group. The houses are constructed of brown brick with rendering on the ground floor and feature projecting concrete surrounds around the first-floor windows. They have low-pitched concrete pantiled roofs that are hidden behind parapets. The houses are three stories tall and include carports and glazed entrances on the ground floor. Some windows have been replaced with uPVC, while others retain their original painted metal frames. There are chimney stacks along the ridge line. Orchard Croft, along with Nos. 161-165, forms an impressive crescent facing south towards The Stow playing field, serving as a prelude to the nearby neighbourhood shopping centre, which is not included in the listing.
Local climate
Orchard Croft sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 3 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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