Orchard Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 July 1984. House.

Orchard Cottage

WRENN ID
distant-cellar-moth
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 July 1984
Type
House
Address
Orchard Cottage, School Lane, Stoke Hammond
OS grid reference
SP 880 297
Coordinates
51.95908, -0.7207
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Orchard Cottage is a house that dates from the 16th to 17th century, with a one-bay extension added to the right in the 19th century. To the left, there is a 17th-century outbuilding, which may be older and is now incorporated into the house. The original bay is timber framed with whitewashed render infill and has a brick and stone plinth. The right bay is constructed of whitewashed brick. The thatched roof features 19th-century ornamental board eaves, brick coping on the right gable, and a rebuilt central brick chimney. The house is 1½ storeys high.

On the ground floor, there is a paired wooden casement window to the left and a 20th-century paired leaded casement window to the right. The first floor has three-light windows in thatch; the left window is 20th-century and leaded, while the right window is wooden with an arched top and a central leaded pane. The central 19th-century gabled porch is made of whitewashed brick and has a tiled roof, a weatherboarded gable, and a flush-panelled door.

Inside the left bay, there are some curved braces and a stop-chamfered spine beam. The former outbuilding to the left has been extensively rebuilt and features a timber frame with whitewashed brick and render infill, weatherboarding below the eaves, a corrugated asbestos roof, and irregular wooden casements on the main floor and basement.

Local climate

Orchard Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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