The Laurels is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1987. House.
The Laurels
- WRENN ID
- steep-sill-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 November 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Laurels, Mellis Green
- OS grid reference
- TM 102 747
- Coordinates
- 52.33025, 1.08408
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Laurels is a house that was later divided into three dwellings. It dates from the late 17th century or early 18th century and was extended in the early 19th century, with alterations made in the 20th century. The building features a timber frame, likely extended with clay lump and plastered. It has a thatched roof with a shallower pitch on the red pantiled extension. The structure consists of three cells, is one storey high with an attic, and has a one-bay section with a two-storey addition on the right.
The front includes a glazed door and four 20th-century two-light glazing bar casements with hoodboards, along with three two-light eyebrow thatched dormers. There is an internal stack on the left end with a rebuilt capping, and the left end displays exposed plates and purlins. The 19th-century bay on the right has an entrance towards the left, featuring a 20th-century door with a tiled hood and 16-pane glazing bar sashes. At the rear, there is a catslide roof over a one-storey and attic lean-to behind the 19th-century bay, with a stack on the rear slope. The interior has not been inspected. The building is included for its group value.
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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