The Laurels is a Grade II listed building in the North Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1961. Detached house.
The Laurels
- WRENN ID
- odd-pedestal-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Somerset
- Constituency
- North Somerset MP: Sadik Al-Hassan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 October 1961
- Type
- Detached house
- Address
- The Laurels, Flax Bourton
- OS grid reference
- ST 506 693
- Coordinates
- 51.42116, -2.71057
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Laurels is a detached house located in the center of Flax Bourton, dated 1734. The building is rendered and features a slate roof with overhanging eaves. It has two storeys and attics with hipped dormers, arranged in five bays. The windows are 2-light casements set beneath segmental heads. The central entrance consists of a six-panel door, which is sheltered by a flat hood supported on brackets. At the rear, there is a wing that includes a casement window with moulded mullions and a dripmould.
Local climate
The Laurels receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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