Orchard Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1985. House.
Orchard Cottage
- WRENN ID
- inner-shingle-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 March 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Orchard Cottage, Milstead
- OS grid reference
- TQ 903 580
- Coordinates
- 51.28978, 0.72873
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century. It has a timber frame and is clad with red brick on the ground floor, while the first floor is plastered. The cottage features a thatched roof and a tile-hung outshot to the left. It has a lobby entry plan and stands two storeys high with a half-hip roof and a stack located to the centre right. On the first floor, there are four wooden casement windows, and on the ground floor, there are two wooden casements along with a boarded door that has a gabled hood positioned to the centre right.
Local climate
Orchard Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2026
- No related consent applications matched
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