Laurel Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 November 1985. House. 1 related planning application.
Laurel Cottage
- WRENN ID
- other-cobble-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Laurel Cottage, 16, Castle Square, Benson, OX10 6SD
- OS grid reference
- SU 617 916
- Coordinates
- 51.62066, -1.10931
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Laurel Cottage is a house that likely dates from the late 17th century, with alterations made in the 18th century. It is constructed of red brick featuring grey brick headers and has an old plain-tile half-hipped roof with a central brick ridge stack. The building follows a two-unit lobby-entry plan and is two storeys high with a two-window range. The central entrance consists of a four-panel door topped by a flat hood. To the left of the door is a 24-pane sash window, while to the right is an angled bay window with sash windows. The first floor has 12-pane sash windows. At the rear, the structure is made of limestone rubble with red brick dressings and has irregularly placed windows. There is also a subsidiary two-storey, two-window range to the left, built of random coursed limestone rubble with brick dressings, featuring 12-pane sashes in all openings.
Local climate
Laurel Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% 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 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 4 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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