Orchard House is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1984. House. 2 related planning applications.

Orchard House

WRENN ID
patient-lintel-grove
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cumberland
Constituency
Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 January 1984
Type
House
Address
Orchard House, Irthington, CA6 4NX
OS grid reference
NY 500 628
Coordinates
54.95799, -2.78193
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Orchard House is a house dated 1783, featuring the initials JWJ inscribed on the keystone. It has painted rendered walls, painted stone quoins and dressings, and a Welsh slate roof without chimney stacks. The building is two storeys high with two bays, and there is a two-storey, single-bay extension to the left. The front has a 20th-century top-glazed door surrounded by an alternate block surround with V-shaped joints and a flat arch with a large keystone. The flanking windows are 20th-century casements in their original surrounds; the left window is tripartite with a central round head, while the right window is a triple casement with a flat arch and a plain painted surround, featuring a round head above the central portion to mimic the arch on the left. Above, there is a sash window with glazing bars and a 20th-century casement to the left, both in original painted surrounds. The extension includes a plank door and two-pane sash windows in plain painted surrounds.

Local climate

Orchard House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,070 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% 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
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2002
  • 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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