Orchard Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 1972. Cottage. 5 related planning applications.
Orchard Cottages
- WRENN ID
- third-moat-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1972
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Orchard Cottages, 1 and 2, Ashford Road, Faversham
- OS grid reference
- TR 015 604
- Coordinates
- 51.3076, 0.89007
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard Cottages date from the early 19th century. The cottages are two storeys high, with two windows on each first floor. They feature tiled gabled roofs. The fronts are weatherboarded, set on a rendered brick sleeper wall. Each cottage has two casement windows on the ground floor, and four-panelled doors. Porches have weatherboarded returns, trellised fronts with ogee heads, and slate cabled roofs. The cottages comprise two parallel ranges.
Local climate
Orchard Cottages sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2009
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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