Orchard Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
Orchard Cottage
- WRENN ID
- inner-stair-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Orchard Cottage, 5, Wytham, OX2 8QN
- OS grid reference
- SP 475 088
- Coordinates
- 51.77664, -1.3115
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard Cottage is a house dating from the mid to late 17th century. It is constructed of uncoursed limestone rubble and features a gabled thatch roof with brick stacks at each end. The house has a two-unit plan and is one storey high with an attic, presenting a two-window range. The front has timber lintels above a 20th-century door and flanking casement windows, along with two-light dormer casements. There is a 20th-century one-storey extension to the right. Inside, there is a chamfered beam, although the first floor 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 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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- 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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