Laurel House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1952. House. 2 related planning applications.
Laurel House
- WRENN ID
- hollow-floor-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Laurel House, 53a, Quay Street, Minehead, TA24 5UL
- OS grid reference
- SS 970 470
- Coordinates
- 51.21315, -3.47483
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Laurel House is a house located in Minehead, dating from the late 18th century and remodelled around 1980. The exterior features painted render over rubblestone and a slate roof with a stack at the rear. The building has a two-unit plan with a wing on the left side and stands three storeys high, displaying a symmetrical arrangement of three windows. The former quoins are hidden by plain pilasters, and there are raised flat arches above the 20th-century windows. The central doorway is flanked by flat pilasters with moulded caps and has a hood supported by shaped brackets. To the left, there is a single-storey wing formed by three combined lean-tos. Adjacent to this wing is an early 19th-century semi-elliptical-arched doorway, with a 20th-century window positioned at the far left. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Laurel House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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 2002
- 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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