Laurel Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Barnet local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 April 1983. Cottage.
Laurel Cottages
- WRENN ID
- buried-terrace-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Barnet
- Constituency
- Chipping Barnet MP: Dan Tomlinson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 April 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Laurel Cottages, 53 and 55, Totteridge Village N20
- OS grid reference
- TQ 242 943
- Coordinates
- 51.63424, -0.20537
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Laurel Cottages, located at 53 and 55 Totteridge Village, are a pair of 18th century cottages. They have a rustic brick facade and feature one window each, possibly incorporating earlier timber framing. The cottages have a tiled roof and are painted white. They are set back from the road and have casement windows, with a central brick chimney stack.
Local climate
Laurel Cottages 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1999
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- 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
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