Orchard Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 August 1985. House.
Orchard Cottage
- WRENN ID
- eternal-bronze-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 August 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Orchard Cottage, Underskiddaw, Cumberland
- OS grid reference
- NY 256 261
- Coordinates
- 54.62484, -3.15339
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard Cottage is a house that likely dates from the early 18th century, although a date of 1678 over the entrance was added in the 20th century. The cottage features whitewashed slate rubble walls built on large plinth stones, topped with a graduated greenslate roof and slate rubble chimney stacks. It is two storeys high and has two bays, with a lower single-bay extension to the left. The property includes a 20th-century slate porch with a 20th-century door, and 20th-century casement windows set in plain reveals beneath wooden lintels. The extension has a plank door and a 20th-century casement window, along with a further blocked doorway to the right. Orchard Cottage is listed for its group value with Millbeck Towers.
Local climate
Orchard Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,440 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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