Laurel Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1967. Farmhouse.
Laurel Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- guardian-pier-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1967
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Laurel Farmhouse, the Street, Doddington
- OS grid reference
- TQ 932 571
- Coordinates
- 51.28099, 0.76905
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Laurel Farmhouse is a house dating from the 16th and 17th centuries. It has a timber frame that is clad with plaster, red brick, and tile, topped with a plain tile roof. To the left, there is a one-storey wing featuring a hipped roof and a stack on the left side. This wing has one wooden casement window, one fire light, and one boarded door to the right, all set within a four-centred arched opening. To the right, there is a two-storey cross-wing with a garret sitting on a plinth. This cross-wing has a gable end facing the front and a free-standing offset stack to the right. Each floor of the cross-wing has one wooden casement window.
Local climate
Laurel Farmhouse 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 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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