The Laurels is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1983. House.
The Laurels
- WRENN ID
- haunted-brick-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Laurels, the Street, Caston
- OS grid reference
- TL 958 975
- Coordinates
- 52.54094, 0.88592
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Laurels is a house dating from the late 18th century. It is constructed of brick and flint, featuring a pantiled roof that is black glazed at the front. The building has a lobby entrance plan and stands two storeys tall. To the right of the centre, there is a modified Doric doorcase beneath a pediment. On either side of the door, there is a three-light casement window set under skew back arches. The first floor has two flat-headed three-light casements with a central blind window. A timber eaves cornice runs along the roofline, which has a bell-based gabled shape. There is a stack located above the door. An addition to the west creates an asymmetric appearance, featuring two similar windows, one of which has been renewed. The east gable is half-timbered, and there is a lean-to addition at the rear that has a catslide roof, which becomes two storeys high towards the west.
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 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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