Laurel Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 February 1991. Farmhouse. 8 related planning applications.
Laurel Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- dusk-bonework-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 February 1991
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Laurel Farmhouse, the Street, Brooke, NR15 1JW
- OS grid reference
- TM 289 991
- Coordinates
- 52.54247, 1.37467
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Laurel Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse, with alterations made in the early to mid-19th century. The farmhouse is constructed of rendered timber frame, with a gabled roof. The right-hand section features a thatched roof and a mid-20th century brick stack, while the left-hand section has a low-pitched pantile roof. The original layout is unclear, but the ground floor now comprises four rooms. The two-storey, two-window range to the left has a central 19th-century plank door with a bracketed hood and 19th-century three-light casement windows with leaded lights. The single-storey, attic portion to the right has a two-window range with mid-20th century windows, a porch, and a central eyebrow dormer. Internally, the farmhouse features stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops, a winder stair adjoining the stack to the left, and a butt-purlin roof.
Local climate
Laurel Farmhouse 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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 — 4 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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