Orchard House is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 May 1957. House. 2 related planning applications.
Orchard House
- WRENN ID
- graven-groin-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 May 1957
- Type
- House
- Address
- Orchard House, Beaumont, CA5 6EF
- OS grid reference
- NY 348 593
- Coordinates
- 54.92461, -3.01769
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard House is a house dating from the late 18th century. It is constructed of red and yellow sandstone ashlar and features a chamfered stone plinth, raised V-jointed quoins, and a moulded cornice. The roof is slate, and there are end ashlar chimney stacks. The building has two storeys and three bays, with a single-storey extension to the right. The windows are 2-pane sash types set in moulded stone architraves. There is a side entrance through the rear extension, which has a 20th-century rendered porch. The extension to the right has whitewashed rendered walls and a Welsh slate roof, with a casement window that includes glazing bars.
Local climate
Orchard House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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