Orchard Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1984. House.

Orchard Cottage

WRENN ID
solemn-grate-moss
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Suffolk
Constituency
Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 January 1984
Type
House
Address
Orchard Cottage, the Green, Bradfield Combust with Stanningfield
OS grid reference
TL 884 566
Coordinates
52.17557, 0.75409
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Orchard Cottage is a house dating from the mid-18th century. It has one and a half storeys with attics and is constructed with a timber frame that is rendered. The cottage features a thatched gambrel roof, which includes a gabled thatched casement dormer, and has axial and gable chimneys made of red brick. The windows are small-pane casements from the 20th century. There is a boarded entrance door that is sheltered by a hipped thatched open porch supported by posts. The roof is designed with rafters that are bent to create the gambrel shape without requiring ties at the point where the roof pitch changes. Additionally, there is a section from the 19th century made of flint located at the right-hand end of the building.

Local climate

Orchard Cottage 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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