Laurel House is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1967. House. 2 related planning applications.
Laurel House
- WRENN ID
- turning-keep-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Laurel House, the Street, Benenden, TN17 4DG
- OS grid reference
- TQ 806 330
- Coordinates
- 51.06797, 0.57703
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Laurel House is a house dating from around 1770. It features a weatherboarded front set on a brick plinth, with the sides constructed of red brick that includes grey headers. The roof is plain tiled and has end brick chimneystacks. The building is two storeys high and has three windows. It is adorned with a wooden modillion eaves cornice and has two curved gabled dormers, each with four-pane casements and L hinges. The windows are sash style, framed in moulded architraves, with the central first-floor window having 12 panes, while the others have 16 panes. The central doorcase is topped with an open pediment supported by wooden brackets and features a keystone, leading to a six flush panelled door, with the top two panels cut away and glazed. The rear of the house has a roof with three hips.
Local climate
Laurel House 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2021
- 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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