The Laurels
THE LAURELS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366571
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Laurels
- Statutory Address:
- THE LAURELS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366571
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Laurels
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE LAURELS
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:
- THE LAURELS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ellesmere Rural
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 40450 32378
Details
ELLESMERE RURAL C.P. LEE SJ 43 SW 9/126 The Laurels - GV II Farmhouse, now disused. Mainly late C17 but possibly incorporating parts of an earlier building; later additions and alterations. Red brick (random and English garden wall bonds) and timber framed with red brick infill to gabled range to rear; slate roofs. Basic L-plan with lower range to rear on left and outbuilding attached to left. 2 storeys and attic. Late C18 or early C19 segmental-headed 3-light casements directly below eaves to left and right with similar window to ground floor to left. 6-panel door to right under gabled brick porch with barleysugar balusters to sides, coped verges and outer Tudor arch. Gabled dormer in roof slope above right window has C18 casement and cusped bargeboards with pointed finial. Stepped red brick ridge stack to left has toothed band to base and 4 attached diagonal shafts. External end stack to right and pointed finial to left gable end. Short gabled range to rear on left has queen-strut end truss with V-struts from collar, projecting single-purlin ends and cusped baseboards. External end stack with C19 single-storey gabled addition abutting. Remains of label to centre ground-floor window . Single-storey range to left of main range (possibly formerly a malthouse) has three C19 casements to front, 2 to right segmental-headed. Perforated tiles (like those found in malthouses) reused in external steps to rear. Interior. Inspection not possible at time of resurvey (March 1987) but noted as having chamfered ceiling beams and inglenook fireplaces in ground-floor rooms to either side of ridge stack. Brick cross walls and one collar and tie beam truss to loft in C19 addition to left of main range.
Listing NGR: SJ4045032378
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 260826
- 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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