Orchard Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 October 1996. House. 1 related planning application.
Orchard Cottage
- WRENN ID
- crooked-forge-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rother
- Constituency
- Bexhill and Battle MP: Dr Kieran Mullan (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 October 1996
- Type
- House
- Address
- Orchard Cottage, Mill Corner, Northiam, TN31 6JU
- OS grid reference
- TQ 825 234
- Coordinates
- 50.98154, 0.59979
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard Cottage is a house that was likely built in the early to mid 18th century and has been extended by one bay and refenestrated in the 20th century. The structure is timber-framed, with the ground floor clad in red brick laid in stretcher bond, while the first floor is weatherboarded, although part of the side elevation is tiled. The extension and outshut are also weatherboarded. The left two bays have thatched roofing, while the right two bays are tiled, featuring an external stack on the left and a rear stack on the right. The house has two storeys and four windows, which are 20th-century casements. There is a gabled weather porch with a plank door. Inside, the dining room has an open brick fireplace, and there are four plank doors and a winder staircase. The first floor retains 18th-century floorboards and some slightly curved braces that may be reused.
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
- No sale records on file
- 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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