Orchard Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Guildford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 November 1985. House.
Orchard Cottage
- WRENN ID
- patient-casement-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Guildford
- Constituency
- Guildford MP: Zöe Franklin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 November 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Orchard Cottage, Wisley Lane
- OS grid reference
- TQ 064 590
- Coordinates
- 51.32073, -0.47376
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard Cottage is a house built in 1860 in the Foxwarren style, possibly by Charles Buxton or Frederick Barnes. It features red and blue diaper pattern brickwork with terracotta mouldings and steep pitched, plain-tiled roofs. The building has a T-shaped plan and is two storeys high with gable-lit attics. A massive corbelled stack is located at the center, with tile-on-edge "broaches" on the shafts, and there is an additional stack to the right.
The cottage has two gabled bays at the center, with the left bay projecting and displaying a band of diagonal brickwork over the ground floor. The windows are arched casements set in terracotta moulded surrounds. Each gable apex features a pointed window under a hood mould, and there is a three-light window on the first floor below. On the ground floor, each gable has a three-light casement under label mouldings, along with a pointed arched Y tracery window to the left of the left gable and a pointed arched door to the right of the right gable. The right end has a further lower gabled bay with one two-light and one pointed window on the ground floor. Additionally, there is a window range set back to the left end, which has diagonal brick eaves and a three-light casement under label mouldings.
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 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% 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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