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
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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