Orchard House is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. House. 2 related planning applications.
Orchard House
- WRENN ID
- small-gallery-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Orchard House, Wetheral, CA4 8LL
- OS grid reference
- NY 473 544
- Coordinates
- 54.8822, -2.82289
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard House is a house dating from the late 18th century. It is constructed of dressed red sandstone and features a slate roof with a brick chimney stack. The building has two storeys and three bays. The entrance is a top-glazed six-panel door with a plain stone surround. The sash windows, which have glazing bars, also have plain stone surrounds. The listing does not include the barns located to the left and right of the house.
Local climate
Orchard House 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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- 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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