Orchard Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1986. House. 1 related planning application.
Orchard Cottage
- WRENN ID
- gentle-remnant-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 November 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Orchard Cottage, Ashford Road, Badlesmere, ME13 0NX
- OS grid reference
- TR 008 545
- Coordinates
- 51.25461, 0.87652
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard Cottage is a house dating from around 1700. It features red and blue chequered brick and a plain tiled roof. The building is two storeys high, set on a flint plinth, and has a discontinuous plat band. The hipped roof has a stack positioned off centre to the right. The front of the house has a regular arrangement of windows, including two wooden casements and a small central stair light on the first floor, and two segmental beaded wooden casements on the ground floor. There is a central boarded door with a 20th-century flat hood that obscures the wall marks of the original pedimented hood. The right side of the cottage is rendered and may indicate an earlier framed origin.
Local climate
Orchard Cottage 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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