Laurels Farm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 July 1980. A Early Modern Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Laurels Farm Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sunken-sill-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 July 1980
- Type
- Cottage
- Period
- Early Modern
- Address
- Laurels Farm Cottage, Battisford Road, Hitcham, IP7 7LX
- OS grid reference
- TM 005 537
- Coordinates
- 52.14598, 0.92991
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Laurels Farm Cottage is a 17th to 18th century timber-framed and plastered building featuring a thatched roof that is hipped at both the east and west ends. The cottage has one storey and attics, with a two-window range of horizontal sliding sashes that include glazing bars. On the front, there are two gabled dormers, and a central chimney stack is located at the ridge.
Local climate
Laurels Farm Cottage 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- 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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