Orchard Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Harlow local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 August 1975. House. 1 related planning application.
Orchard Cottage
- WRENN ID
- rough-stair-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harlow
- Constituency
- Harlow MP: Chris Vince (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 August 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- Orchard Cottage, Commonside Road, CM18 7EZ
- OS grid reference
- TL 457 079
- Coordinates
- 51.75138, 0.10969
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard Cottage is a building with probable origins in the 16th century that was altered in the 18th century. It stands two storeys high and features two windows with lower half bays on either side. The front is weatherboarded while the rear is rendered. The main part of the house has a roof covered in double roman tiles with raised verges, and the gable end chimneys have been repaired in brick. The windows are later casements. There is a central front door that is glazed, along with two doors at the rear of the east extension. Inside, the ground floor is heavily framed in oak, with an 18th-century first floor added above.
Local climate
Orchard Cottage 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 — 4 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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