Orchard Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1987. Cottage.
Orchard Cottage
- WRENN ID
- brooding-banister-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Orchard Cottage, Hesket
- OS grid reference
- NY 467 402
- Coordinates
- 54.75431, -2.82908
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard Cottage is a cottage that may date back to the 17th century, with a 1746 date and the initials T & DH on the front door lintel suggesting possible remodelling. The building is constructed of coursed, squared rubble and features a stone-flagged roof with corniced stone end chimneys, along with a graduated slate roof on the lean-to porch. It has two storeys with raised eaves and four bays. The entrance includes a plank door located in the inside porch. Sash windows have been inserted on either side in earlier openings after the sills were lowered, and there is a fire window on the far left. Two Yorkshire sashes have been added in place of former two-light openings where the mullions have been removed. All openings have chamfered surrounds. Inside, the cottage retains plank doors, and there is an 18th-century dog-leg, cut-string staircase with square balusters and scrolled tread ends. A later adjoining cottage to the right is not of interest.
Local climate
Orchard Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,140 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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