Laurel House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1985. House. 1 related planning application.
Laurel House
- WRENN ID
- eastward-flue-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 October 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Laurel House, Long Street, Croscombe
- OS grid reference
- ST 589 443
- Coordinates
- 51.19691, -2.58918
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Laurel House is a house that has been divided into two dwellings. It features some elements from the 15th century but was rebuilt in the late 16th or early 17th century and refronted in the late 19th century. The exterior is rendered and colourwashed, topped with a triple Roman tile roof that has a coped verge to the right, which includes a base for a finial, and two brick ridge stacks. The building is two storeys high and has three bays with sash windows that have marginal glazing bars set in dressed stone surrounds. There are two door openings: on the left, a half-glazed door with a half-glazed gabled porch, and on the right, a flush panelled door in a dressed stone surround. Inside, the centre room contains a piscina with a moulded two-centred head stone surround. This room also features two door openings and has two cross-beam ceilings on the ground floor, with the right ceiling adorned with plaster enrichment that includes obscured figures of cherubs. There is a winder staircase and two doors made from re-used 17th-century panelling, one of which has cock's head hinges.
Local climate
Laurel House 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 greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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