Orchards Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Sussex local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 August 1972. Cottage.
Orchards Cottage
- WRENN ID
- inner-corridor-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Sussex
- Constituency
- East Grinstead and Uckfield MP: Mims Davies (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 August 1972
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Orchards Cottage, Holtye Road, East Grinstead
- OS grid reference
- TQ 414 393
- Coordinates
- 51.13614, 0.02057
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchards Cottage is a two-storey cottage dating from the 17th century. It features a combination of brick and half-timbered construction, with tile hanging on the first floor. While it retains some original windows, the building has undergone significant alterations. There is a single central stack and a gambrel roof covered in red tiles. Additionally, the cottage has two original dormers facing west.
Local climate
Orchards Cottage receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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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