THE LAURELS
List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: THE LAURELS
List entry Number: 1072857
Location
THE LAURELS, BANKSIDE LANE, BACUP
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Lancashire
District: Rossendale
District Type: District Authority
Parish:
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II*
Date first listed: 19-Jun-1968
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 185585
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Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 09/12/2014
SD 82 SE
13/8
BACUP
BANKSIDE LANE
The Laurels
(Formerly listed as Forest House)
19.6.1968
II*
Large house, probably by John Foster of Liverpool c. 1828 (Pevsner):
now partially restored but derelict. Ashlar, with hipped tiled roof
(now no chimneys). T-plan: front block 5x3 bays with rear service
wing 3x3 bays. Two-storey front, 3-storey rear wing to same height
(plus cellars). In Neo-classical style. Symmetrical, 3-bay centre
recessed behind 4 giant Ionic columns on a plinth broken in the centre
by steps to doorway which has large fanlight with radiating glazing
bars; 2 sashed windows at ground floor and 3 smaller ones above
(some damaged); each flanking wing has a large round-headed window at
ground floor (radiating glazing bars in head of that on left, otherwise
glazing now missing), and a horizontal rectangular panel at 1st floor.
Prominent cornice and low parapet continued on return walls. Three-bay
return walls have tall windows at ground floor, shorter ones at 1st
floor, those on the right restored with glazing bars. Side walls of
rear wing have 3 windows each floor all restored with glazing bars
(the topmost only 6 panes), rear wall has pedimented centre breaking
forwards slightly with a large segmental-headed tripartite window at
ground floor and one window at 2nd floor and the flanking bays have
ground floor doors and windows above matching those of the sides.
Interior: gutted, but elements of some features remain, principally the
saucer-domed entrance hall with curved triangular pendentives (fragments of
moulded plaster, e.g. Greek key frieze to dome), segmental arch to hall and
stairwell, cantilevered stone imperial staircase of one flight and then
two(balusters missing); lath framework for segmental coved ceiling in
right wing.
Listing NGR: SD8674322768
Selected Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South Lancashire, (1969)
National Grid Reference: SD 86743 22768
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