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
- secret-hall-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Orchard House, Dean, CA14 4TJ
- OS grid reference
- NY 073 252
- Coordinates
- 54.61419, -3.43628
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard House is an early 19th-century house featuring painted incised stucco with decorative eaves modillions and raised quoins set on a squared plinth. The roof is made of graduated greenslate, complete with coped gables and stone chimney stacks. The building has two storeys and three bays. The entrance includes a panelled door with an overlight, framed by a pilastered doorcase. The windows are sash style, with glazing bars set within painted stone surrounds.
Local climate
Orchard House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,510 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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