The Laurels, and attached iron railings, gate piers and barn is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 1 April 1974. House. 4 related planning applications.
The Laurels, and attached iron railings, gate piers and barn
- WRENN ID
- waning-step-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Monmouthshire
- Constituency
- Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 1 April 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Laurels, and attached iron railings, gate piers and barn, 7 Porthycarne Street, Usk, NP15 1RY
- OS grid reference
- SO 376 009
- Coordinates
- 51.70383, -2.904
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Laurels is a Georgian-style building featuring a roughcast rendered and painted exterior with a steep-pitched slate roof, bracketed boarded eaves, and narrow corniced brick end stacks. It stands two storeys tall with a symmetrical frontage that includes a three-window range of sashes set in reveals. Most windows are tripartite, except for one 12-pane sash located at the center of the first floor. The central doorway is adorned with a console-bracketed entablature, deep panelled reveals, and a six-panelled door topped with a polygonally glazed overlight. The building has a painted plinth and is complemented by attached iron railings along the kerb, featuring scrolled and urn finials that connect with numbers 3 and 5. These railings terminate at the right in tall stone gatepiers with stepped caps. At the rear, there is a long raised wing with a ground floor made of rubble stone and a first floor constructed of brown brick with buff dressings, which includes segmental arched sashes. Additionally, there is a small attached stone barn made of rubble with a slate roof, featuring a blocked central doorway to the road with a timber lintel and remnants of lime render.
Local climate
The Laurels, and attached iron railings, gate piers and barn receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% 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 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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