Orchard House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1987. House.
Orchard House
- WRENN ID
- kindled-brass-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Bridgwater MP: Sir Ashley Fox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 January 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Orchard House, North Petherton
- OS grid reference
- ST 282 337
- Coordinates
- 51.09867, -3.02561
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard House is a house dating from the 16th or 17th century, with alterations from the 18th century. It features roughcast walls, a thatched roof, and brick stacks. The building is single storey with an attic and consists of four bays. It has three-light casements with leaded lights. There is a door opening in the third bay, which has a six-panelled door and a flat hood supported by consoles. Above the door, there is a large leaded window.
Local climate
Orchard House receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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