The Orchard is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1985. House.
The Orchard
- WRENN ID
- tenth-frieze-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oxford
- Constituency
- Oxford East MP: Anneliese Dodds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Orchard, 20, Oxford Road, Old Marston
- OS grid reference
- SP 526 086
- Coordinates
- 51.77431, -1.23772
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Orchard is a house dating from the early 18th century, constructed of limestone rubble with squared quoins and timber lintels. It features a Welsh-slate roof and brick stacks. The building has a three-unit through-passage plan and stands two storeys tall. The front has three windows, with a door located to the left of centre between three-light leaded casements. On the first floor, similar windows flank a two-light casement. There is a small ground-floor casement in the bay to the extreme right. The stacks are positioned at the left gable and to the left of centre. At the rear, a small wing is now encased by 19th-century brick additions. Inside, there is a stone bolection-mould fireplace, which may have been inserted later, along with chamfered beams and a large chimney that backs onto the through passage.
Local climate
The Orchard 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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