Orchard House is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1969. Farmhouse.
Orchard House
- WRENN ID
- tilted-glass-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 February 1969
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Orchard House, 6, Church Row, Melsonby
- OS grid reference
- NZ 200 084
- Coordinates
- 54.47062, -1.69203
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard House is a farmhouse, now a house, dating from the early to mid-18th century. It is constructed from coursed and rubble sandstone with clay pantile and stone slate roofs. The building has two storeys and a loft, featuring a three-bay section on the left and a two-bay section on the right.
The main house on the left is made of coursed stone and has a plinth and quoins. It features a central six-panel door set in an ashlar surround, with four-pane sash windows in ashlar surrounds, which are slightly smaller on the first floor. The roof is covered with clay pantiles, with stone slates at the eaves, shaped kneelers, and ashlar coping. The end stacks have been rebuilt.
To the right is a lower service range made from rubble, with quoins on the right. The ground floor includes, from the left, a blocked chamfered ashlar doorway and a 16-pane sash window in an ashlar surround. On the first floor, there is a four-pane sash window in an ashlar surround, and the roof is covered with stone slates, featuring ashlar coping on the right and a 19th-century ashlar stack at the right end.
At the rear, the windows have ashlar surrounds; on the ground floor, there are two small windows in the centre flanked by 16-pane sashes, and a central staircase window with a keystone. On the first floor to the left, there is a 16-pane sash window with an extended lintel to its surround. The left return has a 16-pane sash window in the gable, while the right return features two 16-pane sash windows in ashlar surrounds.
Local climate
Orchard House receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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