Orchard Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mole Valley local planning authority area, England. House.
Orchard Cottage
- WRENN ID
- bitter-porch-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mole Valley
- Constituency
- Dorking and Horley MP: Chris Coghlan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Orchard Cottage, Snowerhill Road, Betchworth
- OS grid reference
- TQ 215 486
- Coordinates
- 51.22419, -0.26105
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard Cottage is a house dating from around 1640. It is timber framed and clad in whitewashed brick, with tile hanging above, and features brick extensions and plain tiled roofs. Originally, it was an end chimney house positioned at right angles to the street. The building has two storeys and a stack located to the right of the centre, though it has been largely rebuilt. There are three windows on the first floor and one on the ground floor, with a door situated to the right of centre.
On the left-hand return front, there is a tile-hung gable end featuring one window on the first floor, one between-floors window, and one ground floor window below. The corners of the house are supported by buttresses. Inside, the cottage has spine beams on the ceilings with chamfered angles, a deep inglenook, gun-stock main posts, and one arched brace on the first floor.
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 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% 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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