Laurel Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 December 1984. Farmhouse.

Laurel Farmhouse

WRENN ID
white-chamber-bramble
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 December 1984
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Laurel Farmhouse, Main Street, Bridport
OS grid reference
SY 472 918
Coordinates
50.72342, -2.74913
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Laurel Farmhouse is a detached farmhouse dating from the 16th century, originally designed as an open hall and ceiled in the 17th century. The building features rubble stone walls with stone quoins and a thatched roof, which is gabled on the left side and half-hipped on the right. There are brick stacks located at the left gable and along the right ridge. The farmhouse is 1½ storeys high and has three windows, which are 2-light wooden casements with glazing bars from the 19th century. The front door, located to the left of center, is a plank door with two top lights, dating to the 20th century.

There is a 20th-century rubble-stone extension at right angles to the left side, topped with a corrugated iron roof, which is not of special interest. Inside, the east end room on the first floor exhibits jointed-cruck construction with collar beams positioned just above the ceiling level and large cruck-posts. On the ground floor, there is a brick-jambed fireplace featuring a chamfered wooden lintel with stops, as well as a large chamfered ceiling beam with filleted stops.

Local climate

Laurel Farmhouse receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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