Laurel Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1985. Farmhouse.
Laurel Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- shifting-tower-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Laurel Farmhouse, Wells Road, Wedmore
- OS grid reference
- ST 461 463
- Coordinates
- 51.21373, -2.77263
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Laurel Farmhouse is an early 19th-century farmhouse located on the north side of Wells Road in Theale, Wedmore. The building is roughcast with a slate roof featuring coped verges and end brick stacks. It has a symmetrical frontage with two storeys and three bays, each fitted with 16-pane sash windows that have stepped voussoirs. The central door opening contains a six-panelled door with a transom light above. To the left, there is a similar two-storey, two-bay wing that is of lower height, also featuring 16-pane sash windows and a door opening to the right, which includes another six-panelled door and transom light. The farmhouse is situated on a medieval site.
Local climate
Laurel Farmhouse receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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