Orchard Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 October 1973. House.
Orchard Cottage
- WRENN ID
- salt-bracket-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 October 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- Orchard Cottage, 59, Park Street Lane, St. Stephen, AL2 2JA
- OS grid reference
- TL 144 036
- Coordinates
- 51.71984, -0.34395
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard Cottage is a house dating from the mid to late 17th century, featuring a timber frame construction. The ground floor is made of red brick from the 18th century, while the upper floor is weatherboarded. It has a steeply pitched roof covered with plain tiles and a 17th-century red brick ridge stack with two joined shafts and a tiled offset. The house is two storeys high and has five 20th-century leaded casement windows, each with two to three lights. There is a single-storey lean-to attached to the building. The rear elevation displays square timber framing with thin scantling, infilled with red brick. The northern bay is weatherboarded and may have been added later. At the southern end of the rear, there is a stack in the slope of the roof, likely associated with a baking oven.
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 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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