Orchard Cottage Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1986. Cottage.
Orchard Cottage Post Office
- WRENN ID
- final-passage-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Orchard Cottage Post Office, Compton Chamberlayne
- OS grid reference
- SU 028 296
- Coordinates
- 51.066, -1.96018
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard Cottage and the Post Office are a pair of cottages dating from the mid-17th century. They are constructed of dressed limestone with a timber-framed first floor featuring brick nogging, and have a tiled roof with stone or rendered stacks. The building has a through passage leading to the rear of the stack and is two stories high with four windows.
The Post Office has a half-glazed door with a flat wooden hood supported by brackets, and a bow-fronted shop window to the left. To the right, there is a 3-light recessed chamfered mullioned casement with a hoodmould. Orchard Cottage features a planked door and a 3-light mullioned casement with a hoodmould. The first floor includes three 3-light leaded casements and one single-light leaded casement. The left return has a single-light casement on the first floor, while the rear has lean-to extensions with 2-light leaded casements on the first floor. The right return has 20th-century casements on both the ground and first floors.
The interior of Orchard Cottage was not accessible during the survey in March 1986, but the Post Office has deeply chamfered beams with bar and stepped stops, planked doors, and a blocked open fireplace with stairs to one side.
Local climate
Orchard Cottage Post Office receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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