Leylands Orchard is a Grade II listed building in the Gravesham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 July 1983. House.
Leylands Orchard
- WRENN ID
- tattered-beam-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gravesham
- Constituency
- Gravesham MP: Dr Lauren Sullivan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 July 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- Leylands Orchard, Wrotham Road, Meopham
- OS grid reference
- TQ 638 648
- Coordinates
- 51.35912, 0.35204
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Leylands Orchard is a 16th-century "hall" house with a central chimney, featuring a brick-faced ground floor and early 19th-century bays. The upper part of the house is tile-hung, and it has a tiled roof with a pentice at the west end. A second storey has been added at the east end. The south front includes a two-storey bay to the east and a single-storey bay to the west of the main entrance. The house has some sash windows with glazing bars and some metal casements. Inside, there is an inglenook fireplace.
Local climate
Leylands Orchard 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 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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