The Laurels and Tanners Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 August 1950. House. 7 related planning applications.
The Laurels and Tanners Cottage
- WRENN ID
- hushed-span-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 August 1950
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Laurels and Tanners Cottage, Lyme Road, Axminster, EX13 5AZ
- OS grid reference
- SY 299 984
- Coordinates
- 50.78132, -2.99439
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an 18th-century stone rubble house, originally two separate dwellings named The Laurels and Tanners Cottage. The building is situated at a right angle to the road, with one end rendered. It has a slate roof, one side gabled and the other hipped. The two-storey building has an eight-window front, with a two-window front to Tanners Cottage. The Laurels section features sash windows with glazing bars in moulded architraves, and a 19th or 20th-century two-storey splayed bay window. Tanners Cottage has a two-window range of two-light casement windows with leaded panes. The Laurels has a doorcase with pilasters and an entablature, while Tanners Cottage has a wooden trellis porch. A two-storey splayed bay window is located at the end facing the road, incorporating sash windows with glazing bars. Brick chimney stacks rise from the roof.
Local climate
The Laurels and Tanners Cottage receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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