Listed Building: LAUREL HOUSE (1312551)

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Grade II
Authority Department for Culture Media and Sport
Volume/Map/Item 547, 2, 69
Date assigned 08 November 1985
Date last amended

Description

SJ 46 NE 2/69 TARVIN C.P. HIGH STREET (North Side) No. 103 and 105 (Laurel House). GV II Formerly farmhouse, now house and cottage: early C18 with roof raised late C18 and late C20 fenestration. English bond orange brick on stone plinth and pebble-dashed rubble stone. Welsh slate roof and 3 brick chimneys (1 central ridge). Single-pile plan. 2 and 3-storey, 4-bay front. Projecting gable left end bay is now separate house and may have been a parlour wing of earlier farmhouse. Board door to rock cut cellar and casements with glazing bars above. Remainder of one build and his plain brick band at 1st floor and stepped band at 2nd floor. Modern aluminimum windows throughout and central glazed door all under flat gauged and rubbed brick heads. Bands continue at the sides. Interior: No. 103 has 2-room plan and main room with heavy ceiling beam and exposed joists. No. 105 has 3 rooms on each floor. Ashlar stack runs up through the middle of the house, C20 fireplaces. Slender timber framed partition walls, exposed ceiling beams and joists. Re-used twisted baluster staircase to 1st floor. A 3-board door in top storey where queen post roof trusses are visible. Listing NGR: SJ4918867160

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Sources (1)

  • Digital Archive: English Heritage. 2005. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. 55773. [Mapped features: #4797 55773; #10101 55773]

Map

Location

Grid reference Centred SJ 4919 6716 (15m by 20m) (2 map features)
Map sheet SJ46NE
Civil Parish TARVIN, CHESTER, CHESHIRE WEST AND CHESTER

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Record last edited

Nov 1 2023 2:36PM