Orchard Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 January 1986. House. 3 related planning applications.
Orchard Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sheer-spandrel-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 January 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Orchard Cottage, the Green, Marsh Baldon, OX44 9LP
- OS grid reference
- SU 563 992
- Coordinates
- 51.68946, -1.18597
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard Cottage is a Grade II listed building that consists of two houses now combined into one dwelling. It likely dates from the 17th century and was remodeled in the early to mid-18th century. The structure features colourwashed brick and timber framing with brick infill, topped by an old plain-tile roof with brick stacks.
The building has two 2-unit plans and is one storey plus attics. The brick front has a dentil eaves course and includes two entrances with tiled canopies, along with four segmental-arched 2-light casements. There are four gabled dormers grouped towards the left end of the roof, which has two ridge stacks and a gable stack on the left side. To the left, there is a short single-storey range that has an additional entrance and casements. The right gable wall of the main range features a stable door and a rectangular bay window supported by brackets. The rear wall of the left house is fully timber-framed, while the rear wall of the right house has first-floor framing. The interior has not been inspected.
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 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- 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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