The Laurels is a Grade II listed building in the Swindon local planning authority area, England. House.
The Laurels
- WRENN ID
- high-banister-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swindon
- Constituency
- East Wiltshire MP: Danny Kruger (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Laurels, Bishopstone
- OS grid reference
- SU 245 839
- Coordinates
- 51.55372, -1.64749
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Laurels is a building that likely dates from the 18th century. It has two storeys and an attic, constructed of painted chalk rubble sitting on a sarsen plinth. The roof is thatched and features two brick ridge chimneys on the right side. The front of the building includes two casement windows and a low doorway, as well as two eyebrow dormers with three-light casement windows. On the north-east gable, there is a blocked garret window located above the attic window, which is a three-light wooden window with an ovolo section mullion. At the rear, there are two eyebrow dormers, each with three-light plain section wooden mullions. Additionally, there is a modern two-storey extension made of breeze blocks with one window on the south-west side.
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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