The Laurels and the Forecourt Wall is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1955. House. 3 related planning applications.
The Laurels and the Forecourt Wall
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-solder-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Arundel and South Downs MP: Andrew Griffith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1955
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Laurels and the Forecourt Wall, Church Street, Amberley, Horsham, BN18 9SR
- OS grid reference
- TQ 031 131
- Coordinates
- 50.90859, -0.53399
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Laurels, dating from the early 19th century, is a two-storey building featuring three windows. Its front is finished in stucco and rests on a base of stone rubble, topped by a tiled roof. The windows retain their vertical glazing bars. There is a doorway with a flat hood supported by brackets. The forecourt is surrounded by a low stone wall, which includes an iron gate.
Local climate
The Laurels and the Forecourt Wall receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 3 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings