Orchard Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Maldon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 November 1985. Cottage.
Orchard Cottage
- WRENN ID
- waiting-bronze-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maldon
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 November 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Orchard Cottage, Hatfield Road, Langford
- OS grid reference
- TL 829 094
- Coordinates
- 51.7542, 0.64857
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard Cottage is a cottage dating from the 17th century or earlier. It is constructed with a timber frame and plastered exterior, topped with a red plain tiled roof that features three gabled dormers. The building has off-centre chimney stacks on the left and right sides. It is one storey high with attics and has a range of three windows, consisting of two and three light casements. There are also 19th century two light dormer casements. A 20th century red tiled gabled porch supported by timber stands at the entrance, which features a plank and muntin door.
Local climate
Orchard Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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