Laurel Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 February 1986. Farmhouse.

Laurel Farmhouse

WRENN ID
quartered-shingle-onyx
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Suffolk
Constituency
Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 February 1986
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Laurel Farmhouse, Marsh Lane, Felixstowe
OS grid reference
TM 314 367
Coordinates
51.9809, 1.36957
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Laurel Farmhouse is a farmhouse with a core dating back to the 16th century, featuring a timber frame and a 19th-century red brick facing, topped with a slate roof. The building has a three-cell layout, with the left section added later. It is 1½ storeys high and has three windows beneath segmental brick arches. The left window is a single casement, while the two windows on either side of the door have a pair of casements with a panel mullion in between. The door and frame are from the late 19th century but are likely in their original position, creating a lobby entrance. There is a 20th-century porch and three gabled casement dormers. A 19th-century brick stack is present. Inside, the farmhouse features heavy joists, one with a 3½-inch chamfer and another with a 2-inch chamfer that has a broach stop. Two of the three tie beams have been cut, and there is no access to the roof.

Local climate

Laurel Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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