Orchard House is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 January 1986. House. 1 related planning application.
Orchard House
- WRENN ID
- lost-rubblework-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 January 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Orchard House, Orchard Road, Buckland, SN7 8QW
- OS grid reference
- SU 343 979
- Coordinates
- 51.6789, -1.50473
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard House is an early 18th-century house with a later 18th-century addition to the rear. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble, with a mid-19th century Welsh slate roof and brick stacks. The original part of the house follows a two-unit plan, with a three-window front. The facade features mid-19th century stone lintels above a 20th-century central door and mid-19th century eight-pane sash windows. There is a lunette with an opening casement above the doorway, where a window was formerly blocked. The roof is gabled, with gable-end stacks. Flat stone arches are above two 20th-century windows to the sides, and horned sashes are to the rear. A gabled, one-and-a-half-storey extension is built onto the rear-right wall, also of coursed limestone rubble with a Welsh slate roof. This extension has a three-window range, featuring a mid-19th century four-panelled door with flanking lights under a gabled mid-19th century porch with brackets. Late 19th-century two- and three-light casements sit under timber lintels; a 18th-century ridge stack is also present. The interior has not been inspected, but is likely to be of interest.
Local climate
Orchard House receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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 — 1 transaction since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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