Orchard House is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1959. A C17 House. 6 related planning applications.
Orchard House
- WRENN ID
- first-steeple-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1959
- Type
- House
- Address
- Orchard House, the Street, Bramerton, NR14 7DW
- OS grid reference
- TG 296 047
- Coordinates
- 52.59199, 1.38862
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard House is a 17th-century house, altered in the 20th century. It is constructed of brick in English bond, with plain tiles on the front roof slope and pantiles to the rear. The house is two storeys high and has a somewhat irregular arrangement across four bays. A door is located to the left of the centre. There are three 4-light casement windows on the ground floor, and four similar casements on the first floor; one of these is a 2-light casement. The roof is gabled, with a 20th-century ridge stack positioned to the right of the centre. A 17th-century, rebuilt internal gable end stack is located on the north side, featuring a rectangular plinth and a rectangular flue constructed with serrated brickwork. A two-storey, gabled extension abuts the north gable. The rear of the house is a mixture of 20th-century outshuts and windows, but a 3-light 17th-century timber window with ovolo mullions is visible under the eaves on the left side. The roof structure features tie beams, principals, two tiers of butt purlins and collars. The visible internal features are all of 20th-century origin.
Local climate
Orchard House 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 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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