Orchard Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 October 1987. Cottage.
Orchard Cottage
- WRENN ID
- errant-alcove-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 October 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Orchard Cottage, Whitelackington
- OS grid reference
- ST 363 158
- Coordinates
- 50.93816, -2.90775
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard Cottage is a detached cottage dating from around 1800. It is built of cut and squared ham stone with ashlar dressings and features a thatched roof between coped gables, along with brick chimney stacks. The cottage has two storeys and two wide bays. The windows are horizontal-bar casements with narrow lights, consisting of a 4-light window below and a 2-light window above, the latter topped with small coped gables that have ball finials. Between the bays, there is an open stone porch that matches the cottage, featuring an obelisk finial on the coped gable, a flat outer arch, and a boarded part-glazed door set in a heavy frame. Attached to the west gable is a single-storey extension with a thatched roof and a 3-light leaded casement window. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
Orchard Cottage receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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