The Laurels is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 May 1987. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Laurels
- WRENN ID
- tilted-barrel-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 May 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Laurels, Stevenage Road, Wymondley, SG4 7HY
- OS grid reference
- TL 214 274
- Coordinates
- 51.93246, -0.23484
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Laurels is a house located on the north side of Stevenage Road in Little Wymondley. It dates from the early 18th century and features a brick casing that may cover an older structure. The east and west ends are roughcast and set back from the brickwork of the front, which is decorated with a chequered pattern of red and blue bricks. The house has a slated roof and is two stories high, with a double-pile plan that includes two windows. It has a central entrance and gable chimneys, positioned well back from the road and facing south. The symmetrical south front features a central recess above a gabled porch that leads to a six-panel door, which includes two glazed panels, two fielded panels, and two flush panels. The house has flush box sash windows with 8/8 panes and flat gauged arches on both floors, along with a painted soffit beneath the projecting eaves.
Local climate
The Laurels sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2012
- 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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