The Laurels is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1973. House. 1 related planning application.
The Laurels
- WRENN ID
- muted-cinder-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 April 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Laurels, Church Street, Gawcott with Lenborough, MK18 4HY
- OS grid reference
- SP 681 318
- Coordinates
- 51.98078, -1.00918
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Laurels is a house located on Church Street in Gawcott, dating from the mid to late 17th century, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is rendered over stone and brick, featuring a plain-tile roof with brick ridge and end stacks. It has a three-unit plan and is two stories tall with a three-window range. There is a blocked door to the right of the center. The ground floor includes three-light 20th-century casement windows on the left and far right, and a two-light casement window on the right. The first floor has three-light casement windows. The eaves are cogged brick, and there is a two-story wing at the rear right. Inside, there is an open fireplace with stone jambs and an ogee stop-chamfered bressumer, along with ogee stop-chamfered spine beams.
Local climate
The Laurels sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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 — 6 transactions since 1996
- 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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