Orchard House

Orchard House is a late 18th-century house, with early 19th-century extensions, originally built as an inn. It is constructed of painted rubble stone with a chamfered plinth, raised V-jointed quoins, and a string course. The roof is hipped, covered in graduated green slate with projecting rafters under overhanging eaves. The house is arranged over three storeys and five bays, with flanking two-storey wings of four bays each. There are two entrances, each featuring a 20th-century door within a moulded stone architrave and a shallow gabled porch supported by Greek Doric columns that are made from iron rods to simulate fluting. Sash windows with glazing bars are set in plain painted raised surrounds. Cellar windows in the right wing contain 20th-century casement windows. The building was visited by Sir Walter Scott in 1797 when it was the Orchard House Inn. Outbuildings are excluded from the listing.