Orchard Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 November 1962. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Orchard Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- winding-cupola-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 November 1962
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Orchard Farmhouse, Lower Wraxall, South Wraxall, BA15 2RX
- OS grid reference
- ST 832 641
- Coordinates
- 51.37617, -2.24221
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard Farmhouse is a late 17th-century farmhouse that has been converted into a detached house. It is constructed from random rubble stone and features a stone slate roof with coped verges and gable end stone stacks, the right stack having moulded capping. The building is L-shaped, with its gable end facing the road. It has a single storey and an attic, with a total of three windows. The entrance is a six-panelled door located to the right of centre, accompanied by a 3-light ovolo-mullioned casement to the right, a 2-light ovolo-mullioned casement, a single casement, and a buttress to the left. There are three full attic gables, each with 2-light ovolo-mullioned casements. To the left, there is a former outbuilding that now serves as a double garage. The left side of the building facing the road has 20th-century mullioned casements and a Bridgwater tiled roof. The rear of the farmhouse also features 20th-century mullioned casements. The interior was not accessible during the survey conducted in June 1987.
Local climate
Orchard Farmhouse receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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