Laurel Cottage and Front Railings Toad Hall and Front Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 July 1985. House.
Laurel Cottage and Front Railings Toad Hall and Front Railings
- WRENN ID
- little-corridor-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 July 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Laurel Cottage and Front Railings Toad Hall and Front Railings, Box
- OS grid reference
- ST 813 690
- Coordinates
- 51.41976, -2.26958
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Laurel Cottage and Toad Hall is a house that has been divided into two homes, dating from the 18th century. It is built of ashlar stone and features a stone-tiled mansard roof, with coped gables and stacks at the end walls and ridge. The building has two storeys and an attic.
The south front includes a 20th-century dormer on the left and a flat dormer on the right, both with paired 8-pane windows. The main floor has a three-window range with a raised sill band, featuring three 12-pane sash windows on the upper floor and a 12-pane sash window on the ground floor, along with a half-glazed door and two 19th-century sashes. The entrance front has a thick glazing bar 12-pane sash window on the first floor to the left and a small 8-pane sash to the right. On the ground floor, there are 19th-century plate glass sashes on either side of the half-glazed door, which is topped with a hood supported by brackets.
Each house has a late 18th-century extension. The extension on the left has a mansard roof, a coped gable, and a hipped lean-to beyond it. The extension on the right is at right angles to the main front and is similar, also featuring a mansard roof, a coped gable, and a hipped-roof lean-to. This side has a door with a hood on brackets and a paired 12-pane sash window.
Attached to the property are spearhead iron front railings with two gateways, ashlar piers, and 19th-century iron gates.
Local climate
Laurel Cottage and Front Railings Toad Hall and Front Railings receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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