The Orchard is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 October 1981. House. 1 related planning application.
The Orchard
- WRENN ID
- solitary-vault-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 October 1981
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Orchard, Caundle Street, Bishop's Caundle, DT9 5NF
- OS grid reference
- ST 700 130
- Coordinates
- 50.91626, -2.42763
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Orchard is a house dating back to the 16th century, with a likely addition of a rear wing in the 17th century. It is constructed of rubble walls and has a thatched roof to the original main range, and a half-hipped, tiled roof to the rear wing. Stone chimney stacks are located on the left gable and along part of the ridge, with a brick chimney stack rising from the right eaves. Originally designed with an end hall plan, the house comprises a two-bay hall separated from a two-room service block by a through passage. The house currently has approximately a four-window front. Windows are twentieth-century casements with leaded lights, set beneath wooden lintels. A porch with a sloping roof provides entrance. Internal features retain original plank and muntin partitions, an end newel staircase, and original doorways.
Local climate
The Orchard receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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