Orchard Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 January 1986. House.
Orchard Cottage
- WRENN ID
- outer-quoin-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Wycombe MP: Emma Reynolds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 January 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Orchard Cottage, Turville Village
- OS grid reference
- SU 767 911
- Coordinates
- 51.61351, -0.89275
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard Cottage is a 16th-century house located in Turville Village. It features a timber frame with whitewashed brick infill, although the ground floor has been rebuilt in whitewashed brick. The roof is covered with old tiles, and there is a narrow brick chimney on the left side. The house is 1½ storeys tall and consists of two bays.
On the ground floor, there is a 20th-century paired barred wooden casement window on the left and a similar metal casement window on the right. The upper storey has paired 20th-century casements set in gabled semi-dormers. An old boarded door is positioned off-centre to the left, sheltered by a gabled timber porch. There are also two single-storey extensions on either side, each with half-timbering.
At the rear, the cottage has older wooden casement windows, with those on the upper storey located below the eaves. Inside, the right bay features massive floor joists, while the left bay has a stop-chamfered spine beam and joists. The roof is supported by queen strut trusses, along with curved and ogee wind-braces.
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 83% 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 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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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