The Laurels is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1987. House.
The Laurels
- WRENN ID
- narrow-ledge-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Laurels, Hall Lane, Yaxley
- OS grid reference
- TM 120 735
- Coordinates
- 52.31865, 1.10936
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Laurels is a house that was later divided into two dwellings. It dates from the 17th century and was altered in the 20th century. The building has a timber frame that is plastered and features a thatched roof. Originally, it consisted of two cells, which may have been slightly larger. The house is one storey with an attic and has two entrances, one to the left of the center and one at the far right, both of which are now blocked. The windows include 20th-century two-light leaded casements and two-light eyebrow thatched dormers. There is a rebuilt axial ridge stack located at the center of the roof. On the left end, there is a one-storey pantiled lean-to outshut with a 20th-century entrance, and exposed plates and purlins can be seen. The right end features a bracket to the front plate and exposed purlins. Additionally, there is a 20th-century flat-roofed addition at the rear. Inside, there is a stop-chamfered axial binding beam, while the frame is concealed.
Local climate
The Laurels sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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