Orcheston House and the Wing, Orcheston House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1985. House. 2 related planning applications.
Orcheston House and the Wing, Orcheston House
- WRENN ID
- quiet-belfry-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- East Wiltshire MP: Danny Kruger (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Orcheston House and the Wing, Orcheston House, SP3 4RP
- OS grid reference
- SU 059 455
- Coordinates
- 51.20933, -1.91604
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orcheston House and The Wing is a house with an attached service wing, which is now separately occupied. The main house dates from the 18th century, while the south range was built around 1830. The building features buff-coloured Flemish bond brickwork in the 1830s range and English garden wall bond brick in the 18th-century range, topped with a Welsh slate hipped roof and brick stacks.
The structure is L-shaped, with a three-storey, four-window entrance front. The left side consists of the three-bay 18th-century range known as The Wing, while the right side is the three-bay 1830s range. Orcheston House has a door with four fielded panels set in a round-arched opening with a fanlight, accessed via stone steps that lead up to a flat-roofed porch featuring round-arched windows. To the right, there is a blind arch that rises through all floors, and to the left, there are various sashes: a 12-pane sash in the basement, a 16-pane sash on the ground floor, and 12-pane sashes on the first and second floors, all with flat arches. The eaves are deep.
The Wing, located to the left of the main house, has a glazed door on the right and two 9-pane sashes on the left, with a two-brick plat band at the first floor. There are three 12-pane sashes on the first and second floors. The left return of The Wing features a two-storey lean-to with sashes, while the rear has casements and a half-glazed door on the ground floor, along with 12-pane sashes on the first and second floors; the second floor was added around 1830 when the main range was built.
The right return of the main house serves as the garden front, which has two storeys and a basement with four windows. The basement contains four square blind windows and is partly concealed by 20th-century steps leading to the ground floor. The first floor has four tall 15-pane sashes, while the second floor has four 9-pane sashes, all with flat arches and flanking pilasters with simple brick capitals. The eaves are deep and supported by brackets. The rear of the main range features a blind arch that rises through all floors, with two 2-light casements on the basement and first floor, and a 9-pane sash on the right side of the second floor.
The interior was not accessible during the survey in October 1984, but it is reported to contain four-panelled doors, plaster ceiling friezes, and stairs dating from around 1830 in the main range.
Local climate
Orcheston House and the Wing, Orcheston House receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% 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, more than 53% 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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