Orchard House

Orchard House is a Grade II listed building constructed from roughly coursed local limestone rubble. The 17th century stonework is visible on the south wall, appearing much rougher, while the Victorian stonework is more carefully coursed, featuring dressed quoins and chimneys. The building has Welsh slate roofs and brick chimney shafts, with part of the street elevation painted.

The main elevation faces the garden and consists of a 3-bay section on the left and a 2-bay section on the right, both under separate roofs, with the right-hand part set forward. The left section includes a canted bay, a large casement window, and an elliptically headed doorway on the ground floor, along with two cross-framed casements above and a 2-light casement in a gable with a fretted bargeboard to the right. The right section features fretted gables, while the left has a 4-light canted bay with a cross-framed stone window above, which is repeated on both floors to the right. The steeply pitched roofs have three 2-flued chimneys and one 3-flued chimney, with circular tops and moulded caps.

The street elevation includes a single-storey service range to the left, which has a fretted gable with a paired sash window and a taller gable behind. To the right, there is a gabled entrance arch and a two-storey section with three windows above a blocked entrance.

During the recent survey, only the main ground floor rooms were examined. The layout appears confused, indicating significant Victorian rebuilding of an earlier house. Notable features include two good Victorian fire surrounds in a Tudor Gothic style, typical of affluent rectories, along with some matching joinery and plasterwork. The staircase has clearly been fitted into an existing space.