The Orchard

The Orchard is a late-Georgian house, built in the 18th century, featuring 2½ storeys and three windows. The exterior is pebble-dashed with a slate roof and end stacks. The front is symmetrical and includes a shallow late 19th-century porch adorned with curly barge boards and a finial. The porch has a half-lit panel door with marginal glazing and an overlight. Inside the porch, there is the original fielded-panel door with panelled reveals.

On the lower storey, there are replacement 12-pane sash windows, while the upper storey features 12-pane horned sashes. A pointed Gothic sash window is set in a broad central gable. At the rear, a central round-headed small-pane sash window illuminates the stair. The upper storey has 12-pane hornless sash windows on both the right and left sides, along with two hipped dormers that have replacement windows. The lower storey includes an added one-storey lean-to against the adjoining property, The Hermitage, and an additional one-storey projection on the right.

The house is centrally planned, with an entrance hall leading to an open-well stair at the rear, which features a turned newel, plain balusters, and scrolled tread ends. The left-hand room contains two round-headed round-backed niches, with a round-headed doorway between them that has a radial-glazed overlight, now concealed within the rear projection. The right-hand rear room has an elliptical-headed doorway that is now blocked but still retains an overlight with Gothic intersecting glazing bars, which formerly led into The Hermitage.