Laurel Bank And Workshop

Laurel Bank and Workshop is a house and workshop dating from the mid-18th century, likely incorporating earlier features. It is constructed of Flemish bond brown brick, with a grey slate roof. The building is three storeys high with an asymmetrical façade of three windows. It features rusticated quoins. The main entrance is a 6-panel oak door located to the left of centre, sheltered by a shallow-gabled porch roof supported on scroll-shaped brackets. The lower two floors have flush 12-pane sashes beneath wedge lintels with false voussoir blocks and double keystones, and stone cills. The third floor has flush 6-pane sashes. A two-storey wing is located on the left, with a cartway leading under a storeroom that has a wood-latticed opening and a winch-arm at the rear. The workshop range returns to the left of the rear yard.

The interior includes a rock-cut cellar. The left-hand room features an altered inglenook and two nick-stopped oak beams with lozenges and roses carved on their soffits, along with coved panels between. Other rooms have oak joists and some old plasterwork. An oak boarded inner back door and a door to the rear room are also present. The main oak staircase has winders at the foot and head, while an oak rear staircase winds 180 degrees between each floor. The left room on the second storey has chamfered oak beams and an inglenook with a bevelled bressummer. Broad oak board floors are in the left and central rooms, while the right room has a pine floor. Oak doors, both two- and three-panel, are also present. The third storey features oak purlins, one of which is squint bridled, and pine rafters. Stop-chamfered oak beams are also noted.