Orchard House Tudor Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1950. House.
Orchard House Tudor Cottages
- WRENN ID
- winding-bronze-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1950
- Type
- House
- Address
- Orchard House Tudor Cottages, 1 and 2, Water Lane, Faversham
- OS grid reference
- TR 002 607
- Coordinates
- 51.3106, 0.87253
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard House, also known as Nos 1 and 2 Tudor Cottages, is a timber-framed house located on Water Lane in Ospringe. It dates back to the 15th century for the north half, which has one window bay. The ground floor has been rebuilt in red brick, while the first floor is stuccoed with close-studding and features an overhanging section on a bressummer. The north front is weather-boarded. There is a brick chimney breast on the north side and on the left wing, where the ground floor is made of stone rubble and the first floor is also weather-boarded. This half of the building has one casement window with small square leaded panes on the east front.
The south half of the building, which comprises Nos 1 and 2 Tudor Cottages, is a 16th-century extension with two window bays. The ground floor is now red brick, while the first floor has exposed timber-framing with curved braces, overhangs on a moulded bressummer, and brackets. The windows in this section are modern. The entire building has a tiled roof.
Orchard House Nos 1 and 2 (Tudor Cottages), along with Nos 1 and 2 Bridge Cottage and Fern Lodge, form a group.
Local climate
Orchard House Tudor 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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