Orchard Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Reigate and Banstead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1975. Cottage.
Orchard Cottage
- WRENN ID
- winter-porch-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Reigate and Banstead
- Constituency
- Reigate MP: Rebecca Paul (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 December 1975
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Orchard Cottage, Rectory Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 261 547
- Coordinates
- 51.27807, -0.1927
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard Cottage is a 16th-century cottage located on Rectory Road in Chipstead, Coulsdon. The building features a timber frame encased in flint rubble, with red brick dressings and a plain tile roof. It stands two storeys high and consists of two bays. The cottage has casement windows, some of which are modern with glazing bars, while others are leaded. A 20th-century pent roofed porch is situated at the angle between the chimney and the wall, featuring a boarded door and a leaded margin light. At the rear, there is a wing that is plastered and has a plain tile roof along with a leaded casement window. Inside, there is a deep fireplace with a timber lintel.
Local climate
Orchard Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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