Laurel Mount Rest Home

KEIGHLEY WOODVILLE ROAD SE 04 SE (west side) 5/290 Laurel Mount Rest Home

GV II

House, now old people's home. Dated 1885. Coursed dressed stone with herring- bone tooling, graduated grey slate roof. Canleanstyle. 2 storeyswith attic, 4 bays. Plinth. Entrance in bay 3 has steps up to moulded-surround doorway with Tuscan colonnettes, inner Venetian door, and dated cartouche above. Windows are sashes with glazing bars and have flat-faced mullions and architraves:tripartite windows to bays I. and 4, those on 1st floor with swan-neck pediments, 3 single-light windows to bay 2 with a tripartite window above, and a 2-light window over door. Bays 1 and 4 have attic gables with small, pedimented, 2-light windows. Balustrade over bays 2 and 3. Coping. Finials. Hipped roof. Corniced stacks in roof slope and lateral stacks to right gable. Rear: stair-window of 2 round-arched and round-based lights and margin lights. Left return: continues in style of front. On right is 2-storey semicircular bay with 3 curved windows to each floor, the bay surmounted by balustrade with finials. On left is glazed door flanked by windows. Interior: panelled hallway with marbled floor. Stair with turned balusters, moulded handrail and five Art Nouveau stained glass window. Ground floor rooms have original decorative panelling, fireplaces and part-glazed doors, 1st floor has early C20 bathroom suite said to have been fitted for visit of Princess Royal, with original decor and fittings.

Listing NGR: SE0548041707