Orchard Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. A Post-medieval Cottage.
Orchard Cottage
- WRENN ID
- winter-finial-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1981
- Type
- Cottage
- Period
- Post-medieval
- Address
- Orchard Cottage, Wash Lane, Forncett
- OS grid reference
- TM 166 926
- Coordinates
- 52.48841, 1.18997
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard Cottage is a 17th-century timber-frame cottage located on Wash Lane in Forncett St Peter. The cottage is plastered with brick-faced end walls and features a thatched roof with gabled ends. It has an off-centre brick chimney stack and is one storey high with an attic. The building includes two small wedge-shaped dormers, 18th-century or early 19th-century casement windows, and a small sash window. There are also three plank doors.
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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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