Laurel House is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1987. House.
Laurel House
- WRENN ID
- scarred-pinnacle-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 March 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Laurel House, Main Street, Dishforth
- OS grid reference
- SE 381 732
- Coordinates
- 54.15348, -1.41738
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Laurel House is a house built in the mid-18th century, with alterations made in the mid-19th century. It is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond and features a stone slate roof. The building has two storeys with an attic and three windows on the first floor. It has rusticated ashlar quoins and a central four-panel door, which has a glazed top half, set in an alternate quoined surround with a double keystone above the lintel. The windows are sashes with flush wood architraves, stone sills, and keyed lintels. The eaves are dentilled, and there are cut-back kneelers and ashlar gable copings, along with end stacks.
Local climate
Laurel House receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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