The Apple Orchard is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1954. Inn, guest house.

The Apple Orchard

WRENN ID
rough-clay-vermeil
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Wycombe MP: Emma Reynolds (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 January 1954
Type
Inn, guest house
Address
The Apple Orchard, High Street, West Wycombe
OS grid reference
SU 829 946
Coordinates
51.64468, -0.8032
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Apple Orchard, formerly known as the White Hart Inn and later the Apple Orchard Guest House, is a building dating from the late 16th century or early 17th century. It features colour washed bricks and a timber-framed first floor that overhangs on exposed corbels, topped with an old tiled roof. The structure is two storeys high with attics.

On the ground floor, there is a central bay window and a door that is flanked by panelled pilasters with square panelled capitals. It includes one three-light and one four-light wooden mullioned casement, along with two doors on the left side. The first floor has three flush three-light wooden mullioned casements and one single light casement, as well as a gabled dormer. A late 17th century brick chimney stack, featuring in-and-out quoins and round-headed panels on each face, is also present.

Inside, the ground floor displays exposed ceiling beams. The Apple Orchard is part of a group that includes Nos 35 to 37, The Church Loft, Nos 45 to 54, Nos 56 to 59, Steps House, The Plough Inn, The Old Smithy, the West Wycombe Estate Office, Rose Cottage, and Ness Cottage.

Local climate

The Apple Orchard 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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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