Orchard Cottage, and Front Boundary Wall to South is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1985. House.
Orchard Cottage, and Front Boundary Wall to South
- WRENN ID
- leaning-basalt-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 January 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Orchard Cottage, and Front Boundary Wall to South, Cucklington
- OS grid reference
- ST 750 277
- Coordinates
- 51.04838, -2.35662
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard Cottage is a house dating from the early 19th century, constructed from local stone that is cut and squared, featuring ashlar lintels. The roof is covered with plain clay tiles and has simple gables, along with brick chimney stacks at each end. The building stands two storeys tall and has three bays. It includes 16-pane sash windows that are set flush with the wall, with the window boxes exposed. The central entrance features a six-panel door with glazed top panels, sheltered by a lead-covered flat timber hood supported by ornamental wood brackets and cast iron tubular posts. There is a low two-storey extension on the west gable and an outshut at the rear. The interior remains largely unchanged.
The front boundary wall is made of coursed rubble with plain coping and has sweeps leading up to the gateway. The return wall back to the house on the west side is capped with clay ridge tiles.
Local climate
Orchard Cottage, and Front Boundary Wall to South receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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