The Laurels is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 May 1975. Chapel.
The Laurels
- WRENN ID
- silver-clay-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cardiff
- Constituency
- Cardiff North MP: Anna McMorrin (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 19 May 1975
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- The Laurels, 27 Penlline Road, Whitchurch, CF14 2AA
- OS grid reference
- ST 153 801
- Coordinates
- 51.5142, -3.22156
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Laurels is a two-storey building with a stuccoed front that features two bays and a gable adorned with curvilinear bargeboards and a cross finial above the left bay. The roof is made of Welsh slate and includes ridge tiles. The building has an L-shaped plan and is accented with rusticated quoins.
On the northern bay, there is a sash window with 2 over 2 panes and a square dripmould on the first floor, along with a bay window on the ground floor. The southern bay contains a sash window with a dripmould on the ground floor and a gable stack. The south return features another gable above a first-floor window. The side elevations are plain, with the left return having a door, a window, and two truncated stacks. The rear elevation has not been observed.
The interior was not seen during the last survey in November 2001.
Local climate
The Laurels sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% 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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