Orchard Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Test Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1957. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Orchard Cottage
- WRENN ID
- open-panel-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Test Valley
- Constituency
- Romsey and Southampton North MP: Caroline Nokes (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1957
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Orchard Cottage, Mesh Road, Michelmersh and Timsbury, SO51 0NR
- OS grid reference
- SU 343 266
- Coordinates
- 51.03805, -1.51214
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard Cottage is a 17th-century cottage located on Mesh Road in Michelmersh. It features a timber-frame structure with brick infill and a thatched roof. The cottage is 1½ storeys high and consists of two bays, with an outshot or hip-bay at each end. The front has a plinth and a four-panel door located to the right of the left bay, accessed by steps. To the left, there is a three-light casement window, and at the left end, there is a weatherboarded outshot that projects forward. In the right bay, there is a two-light casement window, along with a pair of three-light casements positioned above and below a frame member. A similar casement window is found in the right hip bay. The roof is hipped and slopes down to the left, featuring a ridge piece and a stack positioned above the door.
Local climate
Orchard Cottage receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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 — 3 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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