Orchard House Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 November 1984. Farmhouse, barn.
Orchard House Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn
- WRENN ID
- young-shingle-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 November 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse, barn
- OS grid reference
- NY 192 580
- Coordinates
- 54.91094, -3.26081
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard House Farmhouse and the adjoining barn are a mid-18th century farmhouse and a barn dated 1786, with the name John Gunson inscribed above the entrance. The farmhouse features painted render over brick, a chamfered plinth, and V-jointed quoins. It has a plain stone cornice that incorporates lintels from blocked upper floor windows. The roof is made of graduated greenslate, with coped gables and kneelers, and there are brick chimney stacks. The farmhouse is two storeys high and originally had six bays, but now has three. The barn, which has a lower roofline, is also two storeys and has three bays on the right side. There is a top glazed panelled door to the right, framed by a painted architrave. The farmhouse has narrow sash windows with glazing bars set in painted stone architraves, and three blocked windows on the upper floor that are covered by render. The barn features plank doors on the ground floor, along with a blocked loft and blocked slit vents. There are 20th-century brick buttresses and repairs to the wall.
Local climate
Orchard House Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings