Orchard House is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 April 1957. House.
Orchard House
- WRENN ID
- white-moulding-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 April 1957
- Type
- House
- Address
- Orchard House, A6, St. Cuthbert Without
- OS grid reference
- NY 429 526
- Coordinates
- 54.8652, -2.89052
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard House is a house dating from the late 18th century. It features red sandstone coursed rubble walls and a graduated slate roof, along with brick gable chimney stacks. The building is two storeys high and has three bays. There are two bay windows with a segmental plan that flank a round-headed entrance arch, which has a false keystone. The quoins are made of slightly lighter stone, and the entrance and windows have plain surrounds. The front door is a six-panel design with a patterned fanlight above it. The bay windows have curved sashes, all fitted with glazing bars. The listing does not include any out-buildings.
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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