Listed Building: LAUREL COTTAGE AND ATTACHED UNOCCUPIED COTTAGE (1135875)

SJ 68 SW APPLETON C.P. PEPPER STREET (North-East Side) 6/16 Laurel Cottage and attached unoccupied cottage. II Pair of cottages (probably originally one) C17 or earlier. Oak frame of brick-nogged rectangular panels with one intermediate rail and some diagonal braces. Projecting sandstone plinth and thatched roof with chimney set longitudinally on ridge right of centre and single-flue chimney on left gable. One storey with attic bedrooms in roof; 5 bays in all. Wooden casements replaced and altered ad hoc; boarded doors - that to Laurel Cottage (left) has small early C20 gabled porch. Full-length lean-to at rear. Interior: Ingle nook at right end of Laurel cottage; chamfered oak beams; some timber framing exposed in internal walls; ogee arched oak lintel between parlour and kitchen of Laurel Cottage; large oak purlins. The building was probably at first one dwelling with a lobby entrance opposite the ridge chimney and two back-to-back ingle nooks. Listing NGR: SJ6370883357