Orchard House is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 December 1976. House.
Orchard House
- WRENN ID
- cold-sandstone-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 16 December 1976
- Type
- House
- Address
- Orchard House, 36 Orchard Street, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SO 039 283
- Coordinates
- 51.94551, -3.39884
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Orchard House is a Grade II listed building featuring a front wing that faces Orchard Street. This wing is two storeys high and consists of three bays, constructed with cement render and end pilasters. It has a stone plinth and a slate roof with stacks on the ridge. On the first floor, there are three 12-pane hornless sash windows. The ground floor includes a tripartite sash window with glazing bars in each end bay, which are adorned with capped pilasters, a frieze, and a cornice. The central bay features a doorway flanked by similar pilasters, a frieze, and a cornice, with panelled reveals, a six-panelled door, and a fanlight with diamond tracery. To the right, there is a long rear wing that begins with a block that has lower eaves, followed by a taller three-storey wing with a timber gable facing southwest, which contains modern windows.
Local climate
Orchard House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,260 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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