The Orchard Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Reigate and Banstead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1973. House.
The Orchard Cottage
- WRENN ID
- final-nave-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Reigate and Banstead
- Constituency
- Dorking and Horley MP: Chris Coghlan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 July 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Orchard Cottage, 69, Lee Street, Horley, RH6 8HD
- OS grid reference
- TQ 271 434
- Coordinates
- 51.17626, -0.18306
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Orchard Cottage is a house dating from the late 17th century. It features a timber frame with whitewashed brick cladding at the bottom and tile hanging above. The roof is plain tiled and half hipped, with a large ridge stack located to the right of the center. The building has two storeys and four windows across the first floor, including one horizontal sliding sash window positioned to the right of the center. There is a 19th-century door to the left of the center. On the right-hand return front, there is weatherboarding below the tile hanging above.
Local climate
The Orchard Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
- No related consent applications matched
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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