Orchard House, Orchard Road, Forres is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1983. Garden walls, gate piers, house.
Orchard House, Orchard Road, Forres
- WRENN ID
- high-jamb-wind
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Moray
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1983
- Type
- Garden walls, gate piers, house
- OS grid reference
- NJ 036 587
- Coordinates
- 57.60797, -3.61425
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Orchard House is a mid-19th century, two-storey and attic, three-bay house located on Orchard Road in Forres. The center bay is slightly advanced and features a block pediment, architraves, and a cornice with console brackets above the door. The building is constructed of coursed rubble with ashlar dressings, including long and short quoins, a band course, and a cill course on the first floor. The ground floor has tripartite windows, and there are two modern gabled dormers on the slate roof.
Surrounding the property is a high rubble garden wall topped with dressed stone coping. The low front wall also has coping and is adorned with cast-iron fleur de lis railings. There are a pair of low channelled ashlar gatepiers with shallow pyramidal caps at the entrance.
Local climate
Orchard House, Orchard Road, Forres receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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