Laurel Tree House is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 June 1976. Almshouse. 2 related planning applications.
Laurel Tree House
- WRENN ID
- tilted-zinc-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Ashford MP: Sojan Joseph (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 June 1976
- Type
- Almshouse
- Address
- Laurel Tree House, 56, the Street, Kennington, TN24 9HD
- OS grid reference
- TR 023 449
- Coordinates
- 51.16838, 0.89354
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Laurel Tree House, formerly an almshouse, dates to the 19th century. A plaque indicates it was given in 1890 "The Gift of George Hobst and Harriet Mary Lake to the poor of Kennington." The building is timber-framed and of two storeys, with a refronted plaster facade that retains traces of an overhanging upper storey. It has an old tiled roof, and one sash window with intact glazing bars. The rear part of the building is partly tile-hung. It forms a group with Tile Cottage, Tutt's Cottage, and numbers 46, 56 to 60 (even), 66 and 68. Tile Cottage, Tutt's Cottage, and number 46 are of local interest.
Local climate
Laurel Tree House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% 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 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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 — 2 transactions since 2010
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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