Laurels is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 May 1984. Cottage. 5 related planning applications.
Laurels
- WRENN ID
- blind-bronze-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 May 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Laurels, Orford Road, Tunstall, IP12 2JN
- OS grid reference
- TM 361 550
- Coordinates
- 52.14333, 1.44992
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Laurels is a 17th-century cottage located on Orford Road in Tunstall. The building is timber framed and plastered, topped with a pantiled roof. It has one storey and an attic, featuring two modern casement windows and two dormer casements. The entrance has a boarded door with a bracketed canopy above it. There is also an axial red brick stack.
Local climate
Laurels sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings