The Cedars the Laurels is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1992. House and cottage. 4 related planning applications.
The Cedars the Laurels
- WRENN ID
- waiting-doorway-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Kettering MP: Rosie Wrighting (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1992
- Type
- House and cottage
- Address
- The Cedars the Laurels, 31, High Street, Cranford, NN14 4AA
- OS grid reference
- SP 923 769
- Coordinates
- 52.38318, -0.6451
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cedars and The Laurels is a house and cottage located on High Street in Cranford, consisting of three buildings from the 17th and 18th centuries, with alterations made in the 19th century. The structures are built from coursed limestone rubble with some ironstone, and feature slate roofs with coped gables. The left part of the building is two storeys with an attic, while the central block is two storeys and the right block is one storey.
The left section has a central blocked door flanked by canted bay windows from the 19th century, and two large sash windows alongside a smaller one on the first floor, all with wooden lintels. There are also two gabled dormers. The central block has a two-window range with a 20th-century door in a 19th-century porch to the left, and sash windows, with the upper ones designed as false dormers. A brick buttress is located to the right. The right block features a 20th-century door in a flimsy 20th-century timber porch, and a two-light 20th-century window, also with wooden lintels. The quoin is initialled and dated 1713. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Cedars the Laurels sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 1996
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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