Orchard Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 July 1984. House. 2 related planning applications.
Orchard Cottage
- WRENN ID
- waiting-flagstone-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Chesham and Amersham MP: Sarah Green (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 July 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Orchard Cottage, Latimer and Ley Hill, HP5 3QR
- OS grid reference
- SP 988 019
- Coordinates
- 51.70788, -0.57036
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard Cottage is a 17th century timber-framed house featuring three bays and two storeys. It has a plain tile roof, with brick infill on the right-hand bay and gable, while the left-hand bays are covered with tile hanging. The cottage has a 17th century brick stack and an entry located in the left-hand bay, with a closet window positioned above it. The windows are leaded casements, consisting of three lights in the main bays and two lights in the right-hand bay and the middle bay on the ground floor. The entrance is adorned with a gabled door hood and a boarded door.
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 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 2 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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