Orchard House is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1967. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Orchard House
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-baluster-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 April 1967
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Orchard House, Holme St. Cuthbert, CA15 6QT
- OS grid reference
- NY 085 467
- Coordinates
- 54.8073, -3.42506
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard House is a farmhouse dated and inscribed over the entrance with "I. & M.O. 1772". It features incised cement render, V-jointed quoins, and an eaves cornice set on a chamfered plinth. The roof is made of graduated greenslate and has rebuilt brick chimney stacks. The building is two storeys high and has three bays. There is a 20th-century door within a painted stone architrave. The windows include sash windows with glazing bars on the upper floor and 20th-century casements below, all framed in 18th-century painted stone surrounds.
Local climate
Orchard House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,270 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% 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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