The Laurels, Dura Den is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 June 1979. 2 related planning applications.
The Laurels, Dura Den
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1979
- Address
- The Laurels, Dura Den, KY15 5TJ
- OS grid reference
- NO 414 144
- Coordinates
- 56.31914, -2.94827
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Laurels is a house dated 1870, comprising a single-storey and attic centre block with a single-storey wing to the north and a cross wing to the south. The construction is of snecked rubble with droved ashlar margins and quoins. The east front features an advanced gable to the cross wing on the right, with a coped gable having set-offs halfway down, a central bipartite window beneath a hood-mould, and a small armorial panel above. The centre block has three windows, with quoined rybats at ground level. The wallhead is gabled with finialled dormers over the outer bays, having straight skews. Rectangular end stacks with block cornices are present. The north wing has an entrance to the left, sheltered by a curvilinear, finialled gablet with an inset date, and a tall, gabled bipartite window to the right. It has coped skews, a slated roof, and an octagonal end stack. A round, coped rubble boundary wall incorporates a pair of rectangular, chamfered gatepiers with a cornice and cope, bearing the inscription 'The Laurels'.
Local climate
The Laurels, Dura Den receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% 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 — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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