Orchard House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1985. House.

Orchard House

WRENN ID
dark-kitchen-khaki
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 October 1985
Type
House
Address
Orchard House, Pylle Road, Pilton
OS grid reference
ST 592 405
Coordinates
51.16259, -2.58456
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Orchard House is an early 19th-century house constructed from coursed and squared rubble, featuring coped verges and a slate roof with end brick stacks. The building has a symmetrical front with two storeys and three bays. The first floor has 12-pane sash windows, while the ground floor has 16-pane sash windows, all with plain dressed stone surrounds. The central door opening is framed by a dressed stone surround and features a 20th-century door topped by a moulded slab hood supported by large console brackets. To the left, there is a single bay outshut that is also two storeys high, covered with a triple Roman tile roof and fitted with 4-pane casements.

Local climate

Orchard House receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% 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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