The Laurels is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 August 1962. House.
The Laurels
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-hammer-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 August 1962
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Laurels, 70, North Street, Biddenden
- OS grid reference
- TQ 851 386
- Coordinates
- 51.11761, 0.64414
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Laurels is a 17th-century building located on the east side of North Street in Biddenden. It has two storeys and attics, with a distinctive façade covered in fishscale tiles. The roof is half-hipped and tiled, featuring three hipped dormers. A moulded wooden eaves cornice adds to its architectural detail. The building includes three casement windows with small square leaded panes, and a large 18th-century style bay window on the ground floor. The entrance is framed by a doorcase with muted pilasters, a flat hood supported by brackets, a triglyph frieze, and a door composed of eight fielded panels.
Local climate
The Laurels sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 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 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% 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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