Orchard Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. House. 1 related planning application.
Orchard Lodge
- WRENN ID
- upper-attic-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Orchard Lodge, Wetheral, CA4 8NE
- OS grid reference
- NY 473 544
- Coordinates
- 54.88213, -2.822
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard Lodge is a house, originally built as a lodge for Corby Castle. It likely dates from between 1812 and 1817, commissioned for Henry Howard. The house is constructed of dressed red sandstone with a slate roof featuring leaded hips, and incorporates a 20th-century brick chimney stack. A segmental-plan porch with Tuscan columns features a heavily moulded and dentilled cornice that extends around the sides. The porch’s entrance has a 20th-century door, flanked by two small windows. An L-shaped extension, contemporary with the main house, is positioned to the right of the porch and features a small sash window with single glazing bars. The building served as an entrance lodge until 1844, when a new road through the grounds of the castle required the construction of a new wall and entrance gates.
Local climate
Orchard Lodge sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 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 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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 — 2 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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