Orchard House is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. House, farmhouse.
Orchard House
- WRENN ID
- woven-loft-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House, farmhouse
- Address
- Orchard House, Ghyll Road, Wetheral, Carlisle
- OS grid reference
- NY 443 546
- Coordinates
- 54.88373, -2.86917
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard House is a house that was formerly a farmhouse, dated 1710, featuring the initials R.J.A. on a stone lintel above the original entrance. The building has rendered walls, a slate roof, and brick chimney stacks. It is two storeys high and consists of five bays, designed as a cross-passage house. The original entrance has been converted into a window, with a small fire-window to the right that has a chamfered and moulded surround. All other windows have plain surrounds. There is a 19th-century entrance cut between the first and second windows on the right, which features a panelled door. The sash windows have single glazing bars. The listing does not include the brick barn to the left, which has a corrugated-iron roof and is joined to the house.
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 51 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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