Orchard Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1978. House. 1 related planning application.
Orchard Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dim-courtyard-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1978
- Type
- House
- Address
- Orchard Cottage, Workhouse Hill, Hartest, IP29 4EB
- OS grid reference
- TL 832 528
- Coordinates
- 52.14379, 0.67689
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard Cottage is a 15th to 16th century timber-framed and plastered house, which may have originally been a hall house before a floor was added in the 16th century. The building was renovated in the 20th century and has one storey with attics. It features small casement windows, and there is a restored original window with diamond mullions on the south end. A gabled porch extends from the west front. The roof is tiled, with a gambrel design at the south end, and there are two gabled dormers on the west front and one on the east front. Inside, the cottage boasts well-preserved 16th century moulded ceiling beams.
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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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