The Laurels is a Grade II listed building in the Norwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1972. Residential. 1 related planning application.

The Laurels

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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Norwich
Constituency
Norwich South MP: Clive Lewis (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 June 1972
Type
Residential
Address
The Laurels, 1 and 2, Orwell Road, NR2 2ND
OS grid reference
TG 222 071
Coordinates
52.61652, 1.28207
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Laurels is a pair of houses located on Orwell Road, built in the mid-19th century with later alterations. They are constructed of yellow brick and feature a hipped slate roof with three brick ridge chimneys. The buildings are two storeys high and have seven first-floor windows. The corners of the houses are accentuated with rusticated brick quoins.

No. 1 has a central panelled door with a plain overlight, framed by a rendered architrave and topped with a plain hood supported by consoles. No. 2 features a later 19th-century rendered and glazed porch with a dentilled cornice. To the right of No. 2, there is a square-fronted ground-floor bay window with large-paned sashes that have horns. Both houses have canted ground-floor bays with full-height sashes on the left side of each unit. The remaining windows are sashes with glazing bars, set under flat gauged brick arches. The wings on the left and right are set back and each has one ground and one first-floor window, along with a hipped slate roof and a brick chimney.

Local climate

The Laurels 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% 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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