LAUREL BANK AND WORKSHOP

LAUREL BANK AND WORKSHOP, HIGH STREET

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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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Date:: 1999-09-13
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Official list entry

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

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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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

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Legacy System number:: 404017
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.