Orchard Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1951. House. 2 related planning applications.
Orchard Cottage
- WRENN ID
- deep-wicket-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- Orchard Cottage, Denchworth Road, Grove, OX12 0AN
- OS grid reference
- SU 400 904
- Coordinates
- 51.61156, -1.42256
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard Cottage is an early 18th-century house, with a 20th-century addition to the left. The house has a rendered plinth and large timber framing with rendered infill, with false timbering to the left side. It has a thatched half-hipped roof, with a brick end stack to the left, ridge stacks in the centre, and another to the right of centre. The house is a single storey with an attic, and has a four-window front. A six-panel door is located on the left. There are 20th-century two-light casement windows on the ground floor, and three swept dormers to the roof. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Orchard Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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