Laurel House
LAUREL HOUSE, 103 AND 105, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1312551
- Date first listed:
- 08-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Laurel House
- Statutory Address:
- LAUREL HOUSE, 103 AND 105, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1312551
- Date first listed:
- 08-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Laurel House
- Statutory Address 1:
- LAUREL HOUSE, 103 AND 105, 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 HOUSE, 103 AND 105, 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:
- Tarvin
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ4919167161
Details
SJ 46 NE
2/69
TARVIN C.P.
HIGH STREET
(North Side)
No. 103 and 105 (Laurel House).
II
GV
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: SJ 49191 67161
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 55773
- 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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