Orchard Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. House. 4 related planning applications.
Orchard Cottage
- WRENN ID
- ruined-jamb-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Orchard Cottage, Rumsam Road, Barnstaple, EX32 9EW
- OS grid reference
- SS 567 318
- Coordinates
- 51.068, -4.04554
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard Cottage is a house built around the 1840s. It has a cement-rendered exterior and a natural slate roof with gabled ends featuring crested ridge tiles. The house has stacks with rendered shafts and old pots. It is a single-depth main range that is two rooms wide and stands two storeys tall. The eaves board and moulded cornice are supported by paired brackets. The front of the house is symmetrical with three windows. There is a panelled front door with upper glazed panels, and a lean-to porch with a slated roof. The ground floor has two 12-pane hornless sash windows, and there are three similar windows on the first floor, all equipped with louvred sun shutters. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Orchard Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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 — 4 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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