The Laurels is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 June 1971. House.
The Laurels
- WRENN ID
- fossil-solder-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 June 1971
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Laurels, 7, the Hill, Wheathampstead
- OS grid reference
- TL 177 138
- Coordinates
- 51.81078, -0.29366
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Laurels is a house and office located on the east side of The Hill in Wheathampstead. It dates from the later 17th century or early 18th century and features a timber frame. The building has an early 19th-century front and a single-window south extension. It has a plain tile roof and stands two storeys tall. The original range includes three casements, each with three lights; two of these are on the ground floor and have moulded frames. There is a door towards the right with flush panels and heavy shaped brackets, topped with a shallow pediment hood. A 18th-century ridge stack is positioned towards the left. Inside, the building showcases exposed framing and stop-chamfered beams of narrow scantling.
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 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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