Church Orchard is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1987. House.
Church Orchard
- WRENN ID
- shifting-cupola-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Bridgwater MP: Sir Ashley Fox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 January 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Church Orchard, Church Road, North Petherton
- OS grid reference
- ST 299 310
- Coordinates
- 51.07432, -3.00065
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Orchard is a house that dates from the 17th century, with some features from the 19th century. It has a roughcast exterior and is topped with double Roman and pantiled roofs, which are half-hipped on the left side. The house has two storeys and an irregular arrangement of windows, featuring one, two, and three-light casements. The central door opening contains a 20th-century studded plank door, while to the extreme right are paired ribbed plank doors. There is also a lean-to outshut to the right of the main frontage.
Local climate
Church Orchard 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2000
- No related consent applications matched
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