Laurel Bank and Workshop
LAUREL BANK AND WORKSHOP, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1229211
- Date first listed:
- 01-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Laurel Bank and Workshop
- Statutory Address:
- LAUREL BANK AND WORKSHOP, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1229211
- Date first listed:
- 01-Mar-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 28-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Laurel Bank and Workshop
- Statutory Address 1:
- LAUREL BANK AND WORKSHOP, HIGH STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- LAUREL BANK AND WORKSHOP, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Farndon
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ4127054548
Details
SJ 45 SW
2/53
1/3/67
FARNDON C P
HIGH STREET
South Side
Laurel Bank and Workshop
(formerly "House 75 yards S.W.of Chapel House")
II
GV
House and workshop, mid C18 perhaps reusing earlier features. Flemish bond brown
brick; grey slate roof. 3 storeys; 3 windows; asymmetrical. Rusticated quoins.
6-panel oak door left of centre under shallow-gabled porch roof on scroll-shaped
brackets. Flush 12-pane sashes to lower 2 storeys under wedge lintels with false
voussoir blocks and double keystones; flush 6-pane sashes to 3rd storey; stone
cills. 2-storey wing left with cartway under storeroom with wood-latticed opening
and winch-arm to rear; workshop range returns left of rear yard.
Interior: Rock-cut cellar. Altered inglenook and 2 nick-stopped oak beams with
lozenges and roses carved on soffits and coved panels between, in left room;
oak joists and some old plasterwork in other rooms; oak boarded inner back door
and door to rear room. Oak stair of 1 flight per storey has winders at foot and
head; oak rear stair with winders turns through 180° between each floor. Left room
of 2nd storey has chamfered oak beams and inglenook with bevelled bressummer;
broad oak board floors in left and central room; pine floor in right room, oak
doors of 2 and 3 panels; stop-chamfered oak beams. 3rd storey has oak purlins,
the front one squint bridled and pine rafters.
Listing NGR: SJ 41270 54548
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 404017
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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