The Laurels

TF 1409-1509 MARKET DEEPING HIGH STREET (north side)

14/160 The Laurels

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House, now rest home for the elderly. C18, c.1800, c.1830, 1875. Squared yellow limestone rubble with limestone ashlar quoins and dressings. Collyweston slate roof with moulded raised stone coped gables, pinnacles. 2 valley stacks each with 4 moulded octagonal shafts. Parallel range plan. 2 storey, 4 bay front, the left hand 3 bays are c.1830 and slightly advanced. Plinth, moulded first floor band, moulded parapets. Off-centre door with cusped panels and tall narrow side lights, covered by ashlar flat roofed porch with 4 centred outer arch, octagonal pilasters supporting a coped parapet, flanked by single 2 storey rectangular bay windows with shaped gables and pinnacles with single 3 light windows to each floor, all with moulded hoods and trefoils in the gables. Over the porch is a mullioned and transomed margin light casement, with moulded hood and decorative stops, and above a shield and moulded wall stack. To the right a 2 storey rectangular bay window with 4 lights to each floor and in the shaped gable over a shield bearing the initials WPN and date 1875 in raised letters. At the rear is a c.1800 bow window with Gothick frieze and a tall window with Gothick tracery lighting the stair.

Listing NGR: TF1416009872