Laurel House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1988. A C16-C20 House. 1 related planning application.

Laurel House

WRENN ID
spare-storey-sable
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 February 1988
Type
House
Address
Laurel House, Ditcheat, BA4 6PY
OS grid reference
ST 626 349
Coordinates
51.11244, -2.53458
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Laurel House is a house that dates from the 16th century, with alterations from the 17th, 18th, and some changes in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of coursed lias stone with some Cary stone, featuring dressed quoins and a double-Roman tiled roof from the 19th century, along with brick stacks. The building is an open-hall house that has been later floored. It has two storeys and three bays, with 18th-century sash windows that have exposed sash boxes on the first floor and wooden lintels. On the ground floor, there are canted 19th-century bay windows with sashes and flat lead roofs. The central entrance features an 18th-century hall-glazed door with a pedimented hood. To the right of the ground floor, there is a room with a fireplace and a wooden bressumer, and a door opening in a pointed-arch wooden architrave, leading to a room that has a coffered wooden ceiling.

Local climate

Laurel House receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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