Orchard Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 May 1987. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Orchard Cottage

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Rother
Constituency
Bexhill and Battle MP: Dr Kieran Mullan (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 May 1987
Type
Cottage
Address
Orchard Cottage, Main Street, Beckley, TN31 6RH
OS grid reference
TQ 858 240
Coordinates
50.98581, 0.64587
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

Orchard Cottage is an early 19th-century building located on the south side of Main Street in Beckley. It is two storeys high and features two windows. The exterior is weatherboarded, and it has a tiled roof. The windows are of the casement type. There is a modern addition on the ground floor to the east side of the cottage.

Local climate

Orchard Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 1996
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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