The Orchards is a Grade II listed building in the Enfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1974. House.

The Orchards

WRENN ID
silver-truss-crag
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Enfield
Constituency
Enfield North MP: Feryal Clark (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 January 1974
Type
House
Address
The Orchards, Bulls Cross
OS grid reference
TQ 342 995
Coordinates
51.67873, -0.05919
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Orchards is an 18th-century, two-storey house with two windows, featuring a one-storey, one-window extension on the left. The roofs are slated, and the walls are currently roughcast. The house has sash windows with glazing bars, and the ground floor windows are fitted with external shutters. There is a glazed porch on the left side.

Local climate

The Orchards sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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