Orchard Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1951. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Orchard Cottage
- WRENN ID
- other-plinth-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Kettering MP: Rosie Wrighting (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1951
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Orchard Cottage, 40, Grafton Underwood, NN14 3AA
- OS grid reference
- SP 923 802
- Coordinates
- 52.41204, -0.64374
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard Cottage comprises two cottages dating to the 17th and 18th centuries. The building is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with a thatched roof, and features brick ridge and end stacks. It is one storey and attic in height, with a four-bay facade. Number 39 has a three-window range; a 20th-century door is located between the first and second bays, and a window is blocked between the second and third bays. There are three-light casement windows with wooden lintels, and eyebrow dormers light the attic. A wall-tie end in the fourth bay constitutes part of Number 40, which also has a three-light casement window with a wooden lintel to the ground floor, and an attic window. A gabled rear wing belonging to Number 40 contains 20th-century openings. The interiors were not inspected.
Local climate
Orchard Cottage 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2023
- 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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