Orchard Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. A Medieval House.
Orchard Cottage
- WRENN ID
- stranded-timber-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Orchard Cottage, Noke
- OS grid reference
- SP 548 128
- Coordinates
- 51.81175, -1.20573
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard Cottage is a small house that may date back to the late medieval period but was re-modelled in the late 17th century or early 18th century. It is constructed from limestone rubble with wooden lintels, hiding a cruck structure, and features a thatched roof with rubble and brick gable stacks. The house has a two-unit plan and is one storey plus an attic. The front has two windows and a central doorway with a 20th-century rubble porch situated between three-light casements. There are also two rubble dormers, each containing two-light casements, and all windows are fitted with leaded glazing. The left stack has a rubble base. The interior has not been inspected but is noted to contain crucks.
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 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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