Laurel Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 May 1987. House. 2 related planning applications.
Laurel Cottage
- WRENN ID
- ghost-marble-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Harrogate and Knaresborough MP: Tom Gordon (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 May 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Laurel Cottage, Main Street, Hampsthwaite, HG3 2EU
- OS grid reference
- SE 259 587
- Coordinates
- 54.02432, -1.60568
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Laurel Cottage is a house dating to 1764. It is constructed of pink and brown gritstone with a graduated stone slate roof. The building is two storeys high and has three bays. It features quoins. The central entrance doorway has four fielded panels and two flush panels within a chamfered tie-stone surround, with a plaque above inscribed "W:S". There are four-pane sash windows within stone surrounds to both the ground and first floors; the ground floor window sills are cut away to accommodate deeper frames. A small round-headed window is located on the first floor, centrally. The roof has bulbous kneelers, gable copings, and banded end stacks.
Local climate
Laurel Cottage receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2008
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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