Laurel Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1986. A Early C19 Cottages. 1 related planning application.
Laurel Cottages
- WRENN ID
- rooted-bracket-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 April 1986
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Laurel Cottages, 41 and 43, High Street, Balsham, CB21 4DJ
- OS grid reference
- TL 586 507
- Coordinates
- 52.13202, 0.31584
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Laurel Cottages is a row of three cottages dating from the early 19th century, located on the south side of High Street, Balsham. The cottages are built of brick, now painted, and have a steeply pitched tiled roof with two ridge stacks and an external end stack. The design is a single range with an outshut to the rear. The cottages have two storeys, with six modern casement windows at the first floor level. At ground floor level are four early 19th-century casement openings and three doorways, each set within a segmental arch. The cottages are listed for their group value.
Local climate
Laurel Cottages 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 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 4 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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