The Laurels is a Grade II listed building in the Peterborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1982. House.
The Laurels
- WRENN ID
- outer-postern-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peterborough
- Constituency
- North West Cambridgeshire MP: Sam Carling (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1982
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Laurels, 25, High Street, Maxey, City of Peterborough
- OS grid reference
- TF 131 081
- Coordinates
- 52.65944, -0.32784
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Laurels is an early 19th-century house located on the south side of High Street in Maxey. It is constructed from coursed stone with ashlar dressings and features a Collyweston stone roof with coped gable ends. The building is two storeys high and has three bays. The windows are sashes with glazing bars. The central entrance has a round arched doorway, which is topped by a segmental fanlight with radial bars and leads to a fielded panel door. There are chimney stacks at both ends of the house.
Local climate
The Laurels sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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