Laurel Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Hertsmere local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 August 1985. A C19 Pair of houses. 3 related planning applications.
Laurel Cottage
- WRENN ID
- twisted-sandstone-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hertsmere
- Constituency
- Hertsmere MP: Sir Oliver Dowden (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 August 1985
- Type
- Pair of houses
- Address
- Laurel Cottage, 91 and 93, High Road, WD23 1EL
- OS grid reference
- TQ 150 939
- Coordinates
- 51.63276, -0.33969
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Laurel Cottage is a pair of houses dating from around 1840. The houses are built of rendered brick, with a slate roof. They are constructed in the Gothic style, with two floors and two windows, plus a central entrance to each house. Each house has enclosed gabled porches featuring four-centred entrance arches and hood moulds with mask stops. The porches have wavy bargeboards with decorative drops. On the ground floor, slightly projecting bays have gabled heads and glazing bar sash windows set in chamfered reveals, also with square hood moulds and mask stops. The first floor windows have four-centred heads. The eaves have wavy bargeboards with drops. Central and slightly projecting end stacks are present. The render on one house (No. 93) has been scored to resemble ashlar. There are garage additions to the sides. To the rear, windows are set in reveals. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Laurel Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 2006
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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