Laurel Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1984. A C16 Cottage.
Laurel Cottage
- WRENN ID
- silent-iron-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Laurel Cottage, Church Hill, Musbury
- OS grid reference
- SY 274 946
- Coordinates
- 50.74661, -3.0302
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Laurel Cottage is a cottage dating from the early 16th century. It is constructed of plastered stone rubble and features a thatched roof with half-hipped ends. The building has two storeys and a four-window range, with small one, three, and four-light casements that have leaded panes. There is a plank door located to the left of the centre. The cottage has rendered ridge and end chimney stacks. Inside, there are three jointed cruck trusses, a cambered fireplace bressummer, and stopped and chamfered ceiling beams.
Local climate
Laurel Cottage receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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