Laurel Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. House. 2 related planning applications.
Laurel Cottage
- WRENN ID
- hushed-steel-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Laurel Cottage, Banbury Hill, Shutford, OX15 6PE
- OS grid reference
- SP 386 402
- Coordinates
- 52.05953, -1.43771
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Laurel Cottage is a late 17th and early 18th century house located on the north side of Banbury Hill, Shutford. The house is built of coursed and squared ironstone and has a steeply pitched thatched roof with brick ridge and end stacks. It has a three-unit plan, plus a rear extension, and is a single storey with an attic. The entrance, on the right-hand side, features a plank door and a 20th-century trellis porch. It is flanked by three-light metal casement windows with wooden lintels. Two eyebrow dormers are situated in the roof, each with a three-light casement window. A single-storey thatched extension is attached to the rear of the property. The interior remains uninspected.
Local climate
Laurel Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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 — 3 transactions since 1995
- 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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