Laurel Bank and Etheldune, with Gate Piers and Gates to Road is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 July 1976. House.
Laurel Bank and Etheldune, with Gate Piers and Gates to Road
- WRENN ID
- ancient-corbel-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South West Wiltshire MP: Dr Andrew Murrison (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 July 1976
- Type
- House
- Address
- Laurel Bank and Etheldune, with Gate Piers and Gates to Road, Hilperton Road, Trowbridge
- OS grid reference
- ST 863 583
- Coordinates
- 51.32375, -2.19779
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Laurel Bank and Etheldune, with gate piers and gates to the road, is an early 19th-century building that has been altered. It stands three storeys high with a basement, constructed from Bath stone on a projecting plinth. The ground floor features a rusticated treatment, while there is a string course at the first floor level. The building is topped with a slate roof, and there is an incised string over the first floor windows. It has four narrow pilasters with an incised pattern and four windows, four panels wide, on the upper floors.
To the left, there is a 19th-century arched door with a window, four panes wide, in a segmental arched recess. To the right, there is a 19th-century bay with a six-panel door, framed by an architrave and cornice on console brackets, situated in a projecting porch with pilasters, incised lines, and an entablature. The flanking wings, added in 1840, consist of a one-storey structure to the left and a two-storey structure to the right, each with a window in a recess flanked by Doric pilasters and an entablature. At the rear of Etheldune, there is a three-storey canted bay that extends from the basement level and features an open arcade. The former entrance is marked by rustic square piers topped with pyramidal caps, leading to swag-topped gates with spearhead rails and dog rails.
Local climate
Laurel Bank and Etheldune, with Gate Piers and Gates to Road receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2007
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