Orchard Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1988. House.
Orchard Cottage
- WRENN ID
- small-crypt-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Orchard Cottage, 40, Arlesey Road, Ickleford
- OS grid reference
- TL 182 315
- Coordinates
- 51.96979, -0.27959
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard Cottage is a house dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century, which was renovated and extended at the rear in the 19th century. It features a timber frame on a black stucco plinth and is roughcast, topped with a steep thatched roof. The house is small, standing at one and a half storeys and facing west. It has two eyebrow dormer windows at the eaves and a bay window to the right of a plank door that is sheltered by a tiled pentice. There is a projecting chimney on the north gable and an internal chimney on the south gable.
Local climate
Orchard Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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