Orchard Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1961. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Orchard Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lost-vestry-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1961
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Orchard Cottage, East Coker, BA22 9JY
- OS grid reference
- ST 540 122
- Coordinates
- 50.90824, -2.65437
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard Cottage is a cottage, possibly dating back to the 15th century. It is one of a pair, originally situated immediately south of the Helyar Arms in East Coker. The cottage is built of rubble, with a brick gable and a south-facing extension. The roof is thatched, and there’s a brick chimney on the extension. It’s two storeys high and has one bay. A three-light casement window is on the ground floor, with an exposed timber lintel above it. On the first floor is a three-light casement window with diamond-leaded panes and an ovolo-mould edge. There is an entrance door in the side gable. The interior is reported to contain three jointed cruck trusses, featuring long tenons and windbracing, along with a smoke-blackened wattle and daub partition within the roof. It adjoins Holly Bark to the west, with no visible external division between the two properties.
Local climate
Orchard Cottage receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2012
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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