Laughern House School

SO 75 NE MARTLEY B 4204 (s.w. side)

6/99 Laughern House School 12.11.51 (formerly listed as Laughern House)

• II*

Former country house, now school. Late C18 with C19 and C20 alterations, encasing C16 house. Brick with ashlar dressings, and timber-frame with brick infill, low hipped slate roofs, tiles to C16 part. Shallow U-plan to brick building with C16 timber-frame house filling U. 3 storeys, 2nd floor a built- up attic, moulded ashlar plinth, stone coped parapet moulded string above first floor, plain band to ground floor and sill band; 5 bays, central one pedimented and faced in ashlar, sash windows: 8 panes second floor, 16-pane first floor, 20-pane on ground floor, the last with stone architraves (possibly dropped, if sill band no longer at sill level); central bay: pediment with moulded cornice crowns attic; first floor has tripartite sash with engaged Ionic columns in a panel; pedimented tetrastyle Doric portico to ground floor with moulded and dentilled cornice, door below 6-pane rectangular fan light with pointed heads to 3 upper panes; flanked by 10-pane sashes, door panelled. Interior: several doorcases survive with broken pediments and dentilled cornice, with panelled doors. Rear elevation: timber-frame building visible, with gabled cross-wing, much restored in C19. The framing is visible in the ceiling of the kitchen to the right, but not elsewhere internally, and is 3 square panels high externally. (VCH, Vol 4, page 291).

Listing NGR: SO7661459593