Laura Croft is a Grade II listed building in the Gloucester local planning authority area, England. Detached house. 1 related planning application.

Laura Croft

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Gloucester
Constituency
Gloucester MP: Alex McIntyre (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Detached house
Address
Laura Croft, 281, Bristol Road, Quedgeley, GL2 4QP
OS grid reference
SO 809 136
Coordinates
51.8209, -2.27712
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Laura Croft is a former pair of houses that has been converted into a single detached house, dating from the early 17th century. The building features a timber frame, with parts refaced in brick, and has brick chimneys along with a concrete replacement tile roof. It is a single-storey structure with an attic and is designed in an L-shape, with a single-storey outshut to the east.

The west front has a projecting gable end on the left, showcasing small framing and curved bracing. There is a long projecting 20th-century oriel window with a tiled hood, along with a 20th-century attic casement window also featuring a tiled hood. To the right, there is small framing with a tiled hood over a 20th-century oriel window, and above, a small-paned flat-roofed attic dormer sits over a brick plinth.

The south end is roughcast and has a projecting brick chimney stack. The north side displays square framing with straight bracing on a part-rendered plinth. It includes a projecting bay window with a 20th-century casement in what was formerly a door position, a 19th-century casement to the left, and a 20th-century canted oriel at the end of the outshut on the left. The east side features a half-hipped roof on the right with a central brick chimney, scattered 19th-century casements, and a flat-roofed attic dormer to the left. The single-storey outshut on this side is early 20th-century to the right and late 20th-century to the left. The interior retains much of its timber framing.

Local climate

Laura Croft receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2001
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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