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
- white-slate-hyssop
- 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, Vole Road, Brent Knoll
- OS grid reference
- ST 351 496
- Coordinates
- 51.24252, -2.93023
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Laurel Farmhouse is an early 19th-century farmhouse built with Flemish bond brickwork. It features coped verges and a slate roof, with end brick stacks. The building is symmetrical, consisting of two storeys and an attic, with three bays and 16-pane sash windows that are virtually flush mounted. The central door opening contains a six-panelled door, with the top two panels being glazed.
Local climate
Laurel Farmhouse receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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