Laurel House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1985. A C17 House.
Laurel House
- WRENN ID
- under-rood-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Laurel House, Bishops Hull Road, Bishop's Hull
- OS grid reference
- ST 203 246
- Coordinates
- 51.01546, -3.13734
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Laurel House is a house that dates from the 17th century and was enlarged in the 18th century. It features roughcast over random rubble with a hipped slate roof adorned with decorative ridge tiles. There are brick stacks on the right side, rising from the eaves on the left and positioned between the first and second bays on the left. The building has two storeys and is arranged in a 1:4 bay configuration. It includes 12-pane sash windows, with the central window having very thick glazing bars above a six-panel raised and fielded door. There is also a 20th-century glazed door at the end bay on the right. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
Laurel House receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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