The Laurels is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1987. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Laurels
- WRENN ID
- winding-hammer-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 October 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Laurels, Barningham, DL11 7DU
- OS grid reference
- NZ 082 102
- Coordinates
- 54.48797, -1.8736
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Laurels is a house dating to 1818, bearing the initials "W.T." (William Todd). The south front is of squared stone, with rubble returns, partially pebbledashed. It has tooled-and-margined quoins and tooled dressings. The roof is of graduated Lakeland slate, except for 20th-century metal sheets on the single-storey section.
The house is two storeys high with a two-bay gable end facing the road. It has four-pane sash windows within stone surrounds, featuring projecting sills. A band runs below a coped gable, which has moulded kneelers; a datestone is set into the gable and a moulded finial sits at the apex. To the left of the main facade is a single-storey bay with a similar window and a parapet front with flat coping.
The right return features a six-panel door within a stone surround, sheltered by a hood on moulded brackets, incorporated into a later 19th-century castellated porch. Above the door is a four-pane sash window in a raised stone surround, and to the right is a second stone-surround doorway which is now blocked. The left return displays a twelve-pane sash stair window within a raised stone surround and two banded lateral stacks. A gabled rear elevation completes the building.
Local climate
The Laurels receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2024
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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