Orchard Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1986. House.
Orchard Cottage
- WRENN ID
- fossil-foundation-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Hemel Hempstead MP: David Taylor (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Orchard Cottage, Chipperfield
- OS grid reference
- TL 045 014
- Coordinates
- 51.70246, -0.48826
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century, with brick casing added in the 18th century and a rear extension built in 1959. The building features a timber frame that is cased in red brick, with some exposed brick infill on the northern gable. It has steep old red tile roofs and is a small two-storey house with an attic, measuring two windows wide and facing west, accompanied by a parallel matching rear extension. A large external chimney is located at the rear.
The west front displays corbelled and dentilled eaves, along with two large brick buttresses that were added in the 20th century. There is a small swept-roof dormer situated near the roof ridge. The windows are fitted with three-light flush leaded casements. A half-glazed door on the left-hand side is linked by a segmental arch to an adjoining window. The southern gables are tile-hung, featuring an 18th-century two-light attic window on the left and a two-light flush casement on the first floor above a hipped rectangular bay window. Additionally, there is a fine lead cistern dated '1718', which is adorned with arcading and strapwork.
Local climate
Orchard Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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