Orchard House is a Grade II listed building in the Gravesham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1952. House. 2 related planning applications.
Orchard House
- WRENN ID
- tenth-banister-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gravesham
- Constituency
- Gravesham MP: Dr Lauren Sullivan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Orchard House, Hever Court Road, DA12 5UQ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 653 707
- Coordinates
- 51.41196, 0.37565
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard House is an 18th-century house situated in Sevenoaks. It is part of a group of buildings that includes Corner Cottage, Chapel Farmhouse, and the George Inn. The house is L-shaped and has two storeys and attics. The ground floor is constructed of red brick with grey brick headers laid alternately, while the first floor is weatherboarded. A moulded cornice sits between the two floors, and the roof is tiled with a wooden eaves cornice featuring modillions. The north side has three sash windows, and the west side has three sash windows and one dormer window. The glazing bars within the windows are intact.
Local climate
Orchard House 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2006
- 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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