The Laurels is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 15 August 1974. House.
The Laurels
- WRENN ID
- little-baluster-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Monmouthshire
- Constituency
- Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 15 August 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Laurels, Overmonnow, Monmouth
- OS grid reference
- SO 503 124
- Coordinates
- 51.80858, -2.7212
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Laurels is an early 19th-century house that has a small attached wing and is now divided into two properties: The Laurels and No. 2 Drybridge Street. The main front is roughcast and designed to resemble stone, topped with a Welsh slate roof and red brick stacks. The building has three storeys and features three windows. It has a double fronted central entrance plan with a projecting rear wing. The entrance consists of a six-panel door that is partially glazed, framed by a wood architrave and a hood supported by brackets.
On the ground floor, the windows are 8 over 8 pane sashes. The first floor has a 6 over 6 pane sash above the door, flanked by an 8 over 8 pane sash on the left and a 2 over 2 pane sash on the right. The top floor features 4 over 8 pane sashes flanking a 3 over 6 pane sash. The roof is hipped with overhanging eaves, and there are stacks on either gable wall. The front is enclosed by spiked wrought iron railings and a gate. To the right, there is a small one-storey extension (No. 2), which has an early 20th-century door with a small hood and a steel casement window to the right, along with a plain roof.
The gable returns are blind, with the stacks visible. The rear elevation includes a projecting wing to the left (No. 2), featuring a canted oriel window on the first floor and a tripartite sash window with glazing bars above, capped with a hipped roof. To the right (The Laurels), there is an arched stair window, a 6 over 6 pane sash with a steel casement above it, and a small single-storey wing.
The Laurels comprises the major part of the house, including the front door and the two left-hand bays. The interior details were not available during the resurvey, but the main staircase is located in The Laurels.
Local climate
The Laurels receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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