Orient House is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 June 1970. House/offices. 2 related planning applications.
Orient House
- WRENN ID
- ghost-mantel-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Wellingborough and Rushden MP: Gen Kitchen (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 June 1970
- Type
- House/offices
- Address
- Orient House, Church Way, Wellingborough, NN8 4NB
- OS grid reference
- SP 891 679
- Coordinates
- 52.30204, -0.69449
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orient House is a building dating from 1886, originally designed as a house and now used as offices. It is constructed from squared coursed ironstone with ashlar dressings and features a slate roof. The building has a three-unit plan and stands two storeys high with an attic. The façade includes a four-window range with two-, three-, and six-light stone mullion windows, which have transoms on the first floor. To the left of the center, there is a 19th-century panelled door that has a four-centred head and a moulded stone surround. A large central stone dormer features a three-light stone mullion window, an ashlar gable parapet, and three finials. The ends of the building have ashlar gable parapets and stone stacks. A datestone is located above the central window on the first floor. There is a 20th-century extension at the rear that is not of special architectural interest. The interior has not been inspected. The building is included for its group value.
Local climate
Orient House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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