The Laurels is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 December 1985. House. 4 related planning applications.
The Laurels
- WRENN ID
- veiled-jade-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 December 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Laurels, Broad Street, Uffington, SN7 7RA
- OS grid reference
- SU 304 894
- Coordinates
- 51.60267, -1.56216
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Laurels is a house dating from the early to mid-18th century, located on Broad Street, Uffington. The house is constructed of chalk ashlar, divided by a single brick course and set on a sarsen base; it has chalk quoins, brick quoining at the base, and a Welsh slate roof. Brick stacks are present. The original design comprised two units, with Edwardian rear and side wings added later. The two-storey facade has a three-window arrangement. An Edwardian six-panelled door (two glazed) is set beneath a timber lintel, framed by a moulded architrave and sheltered by a gabled Edwardian porch. A flat arch of chalk voussoirs with projecting keys sits above modern casement windows. The roof is gabled and features end stacks. The interior includes Edwardian four-panelled doors, a straight-flight staircase with turned balusters in the rear wing, and a marble fireplace, decorated with swags, in the front left room. A roughcast one-bay, two-storey addition exists to the left, and brick and slate rebuilding of the original rear lean-to occurred around 1910.
Local climate
The Laurels receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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