Orchard Cottage and Brookside is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 October 1953. Cottage.
Orchard Cottage and Brookside
- WRENN ID
- dark-outpost-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 26 October 1953
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Orchard Cottage and Brookside, Castle Caereinion
- OS grid reference
- SJ 162 055
- Coordinates
- 52.64079, -3.2385
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Orchard Cottage and Brookside is a 17th-century cottage that has been divided into two separate homes. It is constructed from timber framing with whitewashed infill panels and consists of three bays, with the framing featuring three panels high and corner braces. Orchard Cottage occupies the southern end with five panels, likely including what was once the main living room, and has an external brick chimney stack. Brookside, located at the northern end, is in an added third bay and is built with similar timber framing. The northern gable of Brookside is partly clad in iron and has a weatherboarded and slated outbuilding. Both cottages have boarded doors, with Brookside featuring a small timber canopy. There are various 20th-century windows and three raised and gabled dormers. The corner posts are haunched and support trusses for a single purlin roof. Additionally, there is a small lean-to at the rear of Brookside. The property was not accessible during the inspection in September 1996.
Local climate
Orchard Cottage and Brookside receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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