Laurel House is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 March 1988. House.

Laurel House

WRENN ID
swift-terrace-tallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Shropshire
Constituency
North Shropshire MP: Helen Morgan (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 March 1988
Type
House
Address
Laurel House, Heath Lane, Whitchurch Rural
OS grid reference
SJ 552 392
Coordinates
52.94917, -2.66689
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Laurel House is a house dating from the early to mid 17th century, with alterations and additions made in the late 19th and 20th centuries. It features a timber frame with plastered infill set on a brick plinth and has a slate roof.

The house has small square panels in its framing, with three panels extending from the sole plate to the former wall plate. It consists of two framed bays, with a later addition on the right side. The building is two storeys high and has a brick stack located behind the ridge, slightly off-centre to the left, which was rebuilt above the roof in the 20th century. The front has four windows, which are 20th-century two-light wooden casements. There is a 20th-century six-panelled door situated between the first and second windows from the left, accompanied by a gabled porch. The left-hand gable end features a collar and a cambered tie-beam truss with queen struts.

Inside, the eaves were raised, likely in the late 19th or early 20th century. The roof trusses remain intact, including a central truss and a former right-hand end truss, both with tie beams, collars, and queen struts. The right-hand truss has a cambered tie beam.

Local climate

Laurel House receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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