Orchard Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. House.
Orchard Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-lead-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Orchard Cottage, Beck Street, Hepworth
- OS grid reference
- TL 990 760
- Coordinates
- 52.34677, 0.92037
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard Cottage is a 17th-century house that was restored in the 20th century. It has one storey and attics, featuring a three-cell plan. The building is timber-framed and rendered, topped with a thatched roof. It includes one internal chimney stack and one end chimney stack, both with plain red brick shafts. The cottage has 20th-century small-paned two-light casement windows and one dormer with a sloping roof. The entrance is marked by a plank door.
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 88% 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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