Laurel Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 1988. Cottage.
Laurel Cottage
- WRENN ID
- still-paling-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 June 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Laurel Cottage, the Street, Thorndon
- OS grid reference
- TM 136 697
- Coordinates
- 52.28476, 1.13153
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Laurel Cottage is a former farmhouse that has been converted into two cottages, dating from the 17th century. The building is timber framed and plastered, with a roof covered in corrugated iron over thatch. It stands two storeys high and has a three-cell layout. The front features two windows with old casements, a boarded door on the left, and a half-glazed four-panel door on the right. There is a central axial stack with an original red brick shaft that has a recessed square panel at the front. Additionally, there are small one-storey additions, including one that is set forward to the left. Most of the timbers in the left-hand cottage are concealed, and the interior of the right-hand cottage has not been examined.
Local climate
Laurel Cottage 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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