Orchard View

ORCHARD VIEW

This is a listed Grade II building comprising a principal 18th-century range with 19th-century additions and alterations.

The principal range is constructed of coursed white lias rubble with roughcast render to the front (west) elevation and to parts of the additions. The roof to the main range is clad in slate with coped verges and brick stacks to the gable ends. The later additions have roofs of double-Roman tiles, except for the single-storey range which is covered in pantiles. Brick stacks rise to the gable ends of the addition built against the west end of the main range and to the single-storey rear addition. The windows are 20th-century replacements.

The building originally comprised a two-cell house with integral gable end stacks, oriented roughly north to south, with two storeys and an attic. A lower two-storey addition was added against the north gable wall, probably in the first half of the 19th century, with a further two-storey addition to the rear (east). These additions lack internal historic fittings and are of lesser architectural interest. An attached single-storey range to the rear is also of 19th-century date and may have been a former outbuilding subsequently incorporated into the house. A mid-20th-century outshut spans the gap between the additions at the rear.

The principal range has a symmetrical front (west) elevation of two bays with two- and three-light timber casements set in deep architraves with cambered heads (visible internally) and drip moulds. The central entrance features a stone slab hood supported on cut stone brackets and a 20th-century six-panelled door with glazed top panels. To the left is the gable wall to a lower single-bay addition with casement windows to both floors and a coped verge. The north return has a ground-floor casement and an upper window projecting above the eaves. A further attached addition, lower in height and of two bays, is set back slightly to the left, with a central entrance flanked by casement windows and matching casements at first floor; its rear gable wall and south elevation have no openings. To the rear, the ground floor of the 18th-century range is obscured by a 20th-century outshut and single-storey addition. The first floor of the 18th-century range has a two-light casement. The single-storey addition has late-20th-century standardised uPVC units to its south elevation, while the adjacent south gable of the main range has a two-light casement to the ground floor and a single-light attic window.

Internally, the 18th-century principal range contains a small entrance hall with stairs rising to the first floor. The right-hand room has an axial ceiling beam with shallow chamfering and a largely rebuilt fireplace with an alcove to the right featuring a timber lintel. The room to the left of the hall has had its end gable wall removed at ground-floor level to create a large single space incorporating the room in the adjacent 19th-century addition. This room retains an axial ceiling beam and has a rebuilt corner fireplace in the 19th-century section. The rooms in the later additions contain no historic features of note. Upstairs, a rear corridor runs the length of the 18th-century range with bedrooms to the front, which have roughly-hewn ceiling beams, though the fireplaces have been blocked. The principal range has a substantial three-bay roof structure with collared principal rafters and two rows of butt purlins. The roof to one of the two-storey additions is entirely modern; the roof to the north-west addition was not accessible at the time of survey in 2012.