The Orchards is a Grade II listed building in the Broadland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 October 1995. House.
The Orchards
- WRENN ID
- north-plinth-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Broadland
- Constituency
- Broadland and Fakenham MP: Jerome Mayhew (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 October 1995
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Orchards, 20, Norwich Road, Aylsham
- OS grid reference
- TG 193 267
- Coordinates
- 52.79356, 1.25225
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Orchards is a house built in 1847 by John Adey Repton for William Repton. It features red brick laid in English bond, a half-timbered first floor, and 20th-century concrete tile roofs. The building is two storeys high with a three-storey tower and has a complex, irregular plan in the Tudor Revival style.
The entrance front faces north and has two gables over the brick ground floor. The left gable includes a five-light transomed casement on the ground floor and a timber-framed first floor with a projecting three-light casement set within decorative framed panels. The right gable-head projects over the ground floor, which has a shouldered stone entrance doorway, while the first floor features a two-light oriel window within decorative timber framing.
The asymmetrical west front has a three-window range with an advanced gable to the left. The ground floor has three two-light casements, with the central casement projecting. The gable features a four-light casement in a lean-to under a sloping roof. The timbered first floor includes a three-light oriel window in the gable and two two-light casements on the main wall to the right. A stack on the far right wall plane terminates in twin octagonal flues with star tops, and there are further ridge stacks at irregular intervals with three and four octagonal star-topped flues.
The south front has a four-window range with projecting gables to the right and left. The right gable has a four-light projecting window, while the left has a canted bay window. There is a projecting three-light casement in the middle of the recessed centre. Each gable on the first floor has a projecting three-light casement of differing design, with two two-light casements flanking a small single light in the centre.
The east front, which faces the street, features a three-storey square tower to the left under a pyramid roof, with the top stage being half-timbered. There is a projecting jettied gable-end to the right and half-timbered main ranges behind, with scattered fenestration of two- and three-light casements. The interior has not been inspected. This building is an important early example of the developed Tudor Revival style.
Local climate
The Orchards receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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