Laurel Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1980. Cottage. 6 related planning applications.
Laurel Cottage
- WRENN ID
- brooding-mullion-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1980
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Laurel Cottage, Westbere Lane, CT2 0HH
- OS grid reference
- TR 191 609
- Coordinates
- 51.30559, 1.14294
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Laurel Cottage is a 17th-century house, dated 1650. It is built of painted brick and has a hipped tiled roof with three gabled dormers. The ground floor features three casement windows with cambered surrounds and leaded lights. A modern porch has been added.
Local climate
Laurel Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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 — 1 transaction since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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