Laurel Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 July 1980. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Laurel Cottage
- WRENN ID
- drifting-lantern-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 July 1980
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Laurel Cottage, Flowton Road, Elmsett, IP7 6PE
- OS grid reference
- TM 060 469
- Coordinates
- 52.08266, 1.00549
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Laurel Cottage is a 16th-century timber-framed and plastered building with an early 19th-century block of gault brick added to the north-west side. The cottage is two storeys high. The front elevation has a three-window arrangement of double-hung sash windows with glazing bars, set in plain reveals. The central bay, encompassing a single window, projects slightly and rises above the level of the eaves. The windows and doorway are framed within an elliptical-headed recessed panel. A six-panel door, topped with a fanlight, is set within a wooden doorcase featuring panelled reveals, fluted half columns, and a cornice. The slate roof is hipped and has a modillion eaves cornice.
Local climate
Laurel Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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