The Orchards is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1972. House. 3 related planning applications.
The Orchards
- WRENN ID
- shifting-bronze-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 July 1972
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Orchards, Queen Street, Spooner Row, NR18 9LQ
- OS grid reference
- TM 095 969
- Coordinates
- 52.52971, 1.08766
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Orchards is a late 17th-century house located on the north side of Queen Street in Spooner Row. Originally situated approximately 600 yards south of the church, it is a timber-framed building, now plastered and whitewashed. It has a thatched roof and is one storey high with a dormer attic. The front features a 20th-century French door with side lights on the left, a 3-light 19th-century casement window in the centre, and a door and window to the right. The gabled roof is thatched and incorporates two eaves dormers, with a dormer on the right also featuring 20th-century details. A rebuilt ridge stack is located to the left of the centre.
Local climate
The Orchards 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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