Laurel Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 April 1987. Farmhouse.

Laurel Farmhouse

WRENN ID
distant-kitchen-lake
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Suffolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 April 1987
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Laurel Farmhouse, St James' Road, St. James, South Elmham
OS grid reference
TM 322 813
Coordinates
52.38111, 1.41064
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Laurel Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 16th century to early 17th century. It has two storeys and an attic in part, with an L-shaped plan consisting of a main range and a cross-wing. The building is timber-framed and rendered, topped with black glazed pantiles. There is an internal chimney-stack located between the two ranges, featuring a tall plain rebuilt red brick shaft that is partly rendered. Additionally, there is a later external end stack on the left with a pair of short square shafts that have attached heads.

The main range includes two old three-light casement windows on each floor, with the upper floor windows featuring wooden hood-moulds in a Tudor style. The cross-wing has three-light casements with horizontal glazing bars on the ground and first floors, as well as a two-light window in the attic. The entrance is through a full-height 19th-century porch that abuts the internal stack. This porch is made of whitewashed brick, has a sloping single-pitch roof, and features a door with six flush panels, two of which are glazed, along with a hood-mould above. Inside, the main beams are exposed and plain.

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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% 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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