Orchard Cottage and Barford Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 March 1967. Cottage.
Orchard Cottage and Barford Cottage
- WRENN ID
- kindled-soffit-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 March 1967
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Orchard Cottage and Barford Cottage, Papcastle
- OS grid reference
- NY 109 312
- Coordinates
- 54.66879, -3.38298
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard Cottage and Barford Cottage are two cottages dating from the early 18th century, with 19th-century alterations. They likely incorporate part of an earlier house, as evidenced by a reused lintel built into the left return wall, which bears weathered initials, a wheel, and the year 1662 (or 1667). The cottages have roughcast walls and are topped with a graduated greenslate roof featuring roughcast chimney stacks.
The building is two storeys high and consists of two bays for Barford Cottage on the left and four bays for Orchard Cottage on the right, all under a common roof. Orchard Cottage has a plank door with a 20th-century wooden porch, and it features sash windows with glazing bars set in 19th-century painted stone surrounds. Barford Cottage has a 20th-century door framed by a weathered stone architrave, with sash windows set in blind segmental arches. According to the owner, Barford Cottage was originally stables, and Orchard Cottage was divided into two.
Local climate
Orchard Cottage and Barford Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,420 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 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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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