Orchard Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1990. Cottage.
Orchard Cottage
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-ledge-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1990
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Orchard Cottage, South Huish
- OS grid reference
- SX 675 395
- Coordinates
- 50.24134, -3.85856
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard Cottage is a cottage dating from the early 18th century. It has rendered rubble walls that may include some cob and a hipped thatch roof. There is a projecting rendered rubble stack with a brick shaft at the right-hand end. The cottage has a two-room plan, with the larger heated room located to the right. A 20th-century lean-to has been added at the left-hand end.
The exterior features two storeys and an asymmetrical front with one window on the upper floor and two windows on the ground floor, all of which are 20th-century two and three-light casements. There is a small 20th-century lean-to porch with a four-panelled door located behind it. The lean-to against the left-hand end of the house is set back from the front. The interior was inaccessible during the survey but may contain original features.
Local climate
Orchard Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1999
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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