Orchard Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1980. Cottage.

Orchard Cottage

WRENN ID
south-bronze-amber
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ashford
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 October 1980
Type
Cottage
Address
Orchard Cottage, Hothfield Road, Little Chart
OS grid reference
TQ 953 454
Coordinates
51.17534, 0.79348
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Orchard Cottage is probably a 17th-century timber-framed building that was refaced in the 19th century. It is L-shaped and has two storeys. The ground floor is made of red brick, while the first floor is tile-hung. The roof is hipped and tiled, featuring a 17th-century chimney stack. The building has four Dering windows.

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 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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