Laurels is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1985. House.
Laurels
- WRENN ID
- endless-passage-twilight
- 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
- Laurels, Norton Fitzwarren
- OS grid reference
- ST 198 258
- Coordinates
- 51.0263, -3.14482
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Laurels is a house that dates from the late 18th century and was altered and enlarged in the mid 19th century. The building is rendered over rubble and features an asbestos slate roof with coped verges and brick stacks at the gable ends. It has a double pile design and stands two storeys tall with five bays. The windows are 12-pane sash windows, and there is a large tripartite 16-pane sash window inserted in two bays to the left of the central entrance. The entrance is accentuated by a flat-roofed trellis work porch and a panelled door. The house has been extended at the rear.
Local climate
Laurels 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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