The Laurels is a Grade II listed building in the New Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1987. House.
The Laurels
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-clay-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- New Forest
- Constituency
- New Forest West MP: Sir Desmond Swayne (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Laurels, Sopley
- OS grid reference
- SZ 161 987
- Coordinates
- 50.78794, -1.77267
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Laurels is a former manse of a non-conformist church, now a private house. It was built in the early 19th century with a later addition and was restored in the late 20th century. The building is constructed of rendered brick and has a slate roof. It is two stories high with three bays, and features a one-and-a-half-story, two-bay addition at one end. The front of the house has a central trellis porch with a six-panel double door underneath. There are five Gothic-style, two-light pointed casements. The roof is hipped with end stacks. The right-hand addition includes a wide canted bay window with a hipped roof and sash windows, along with end stacks.
Local climate
The Laurels receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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