Laurel Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Test Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 April 1985. A C18 Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Laurel Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tattered-spire-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Test Valley
- Constituency
- Romsey and Southampton North MP: Caroline Nokes (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 April 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Laurel Cottage, Chalkcroft Lane, Penton Mewsey, SP11 0RQ
- OS grid reference
- SU 329 476
- Coordinates
- 51.22709, -1.52897
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Laurel Cottage is an 18th-century cottage located on Chalkcroft Lane in Penton Mewsey. It is a single-storey building with an attic, featuring four windows facing south. The walls are rendered and the roof is thatched. The west gable, which faces the road, is half-hipped and displays an exposed timber frame in the upper part, with raised eaves above the upper windows. The walls are plain with a plinth, and the windows are casements. There are wooden porches with a slate roof and decorative detailing to the gable, featuring vertical boards on the sides.
Local climate
Laurel Cottage receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 13 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- 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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