Laurel Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1980. Cottage.
Laurel Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dark-crypt-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 October 1980
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Laurel Cottage, Ashford Road, Bethersden
- OS grid reference
- TQ 928 400
- Coordinates
- 51.12704, 0.75523
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Laurel Cottage is a timber-framed building from the 18th century or earlier. It has two storeys and is covered in weatherboarding. The roof is steeply pitched and hipped on the right side. The cottage features four casement windows and a doorcase with a porch. To the left, there is a 19th-century addition that is also weatherboarded.
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 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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