Orchard House is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 April 1988. Farmhouse.
Orchard House
- WRENN ID
- knotted-steel-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 April 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Orchard House, the Heath, Woolpit
- OS grid reference
- TL 984 614
- Coordinates
- 52.2157, 0.90324
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard House is a former farmhouse dating from the early 17th century. It has two storeys and features a three-cell lobby-entrance plan. The building is timber-framed and plastered, topped with a 19th-century glazed pantiled roof. A notable feature is the early 17th-century chimney made of red brick, which has three octagonal flues with octagonal bases and star-tops. The house has mid-19th-century sash windows with large panes and a 19th-century doorway located at the lobby-entrance, which includes a cornice on console brackets and a late 20th-century half-glazed panelled door.
Local climate
Orchard House 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 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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