The Laurels and Adjoining Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1984. Farmhouse, barn.
The Laurels and Adjoining Barn
- WRENN ID
- kindled-arch-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 November 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse, barn
- OS grid reference
- NY 215 498
- Coordinates
- 54.83753, -3.22251
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Laurels is a farmhouse with an adjoining barn, constructed with Flemish bond brickwork and featuring a graduated greenslate roof along with 20th-century brick chimney stacks. The barn has rendered and whitewashed clay walls. The building stands two storeys high and consists of three bays, with the barn to the left under a common roof. There is a four-panel door framed in a painted quoined stone surround. The farmhouse has sash windows with glazing bars, also set in painted stone surrounds. The barn includes ground floor slit vents at the front, and its end wall is made of mixed cobbles and sandstone rubble, which has a blocked entrance. The rear wall of the barn has been rebuilt using breeze blocks and features 20th-century steel casement windows.
Local climate
The Laurels and Adjoining Barn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,230 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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