Listed Building: THE LAURELS (1360171)

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Grade II
Authority Department of the Environment
Date assigned 22 June 1987
Date last amended

Description

TF 1409-1509 MARKET DEEPING HIGH STREET (north side) 14/160 The Laurels II House, now rest home for the elderly. C18, c.1800, c.1830, 1875. Squared yellow limestone rubble with limestone ashlar quoins and dressings. Collyweston slate roof with moulded raised stone coped gables, pinnacles. 2 valley stacks each with 4 moulded octagonal shafts. Parallel range plan. 2 storey, 4 bay front, the left hand 3 bays are c.1830 and slightly advanced. Plinth, moulded first floor band, moulded parapets. Off-centre door with cusped panels and tall narrow side lights, covered by ashlar flat roofed porch with 4 centred outer arch, octagonal pilasters supporting a coped parapet, flanked by single 2 storey rectangular bay windows with shaped gables and pinnacles with single 3 light windows to each floor, all with moulded hoods and trefoils in the gables. Over the porch is a mullioned and transomed margin light casement, with moulded hood and decorative stops, and above a shield and moulded wall stack. To the right a 2 storey rectangular bay window with 4 lights to each floor and in the shaped gable over a shield bearing the initials WPN and date 1875 in raised letters. At the rear is a c.1800 bow window with Gothick frieze and a tall window with Gothick tracery lighting the stair. Listing NGR: TF1416009872

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Sources (1)

  •  Index: Department of the Environment. 1987. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. 14/160.

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Location

Grid reference TF 14160 09872 (point)
Map sheet TF10NW
Civil Parish MARKET DEEPING, SOUTH KESTEVEN, LINCOLNSHIRE

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Record last edited

Mar 1 2010 1:55PM

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