Laurel Farmhouse

Laurel Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse located on Stone Street in Ilketshall St. Lawrence. The building has two storeys and an attic in part. It is timber-framed and was encased in red brick around 1900, topped with clay pantiles. There is one internal chimney stack and one end chimney stack, both featuring plain shafts. The farmhouse has old 3-light and 4-light casement windows with wedge lintels on the ground floor. The entrance door has four sunk panels and is set within a gabled open timber porch. There is also a second door and porch from the mid-20th century at the north end. The layout consists of three cells, framed in six bays with widely spaced studs and reversed braces at the corners and partition walls. The main beams and joists are decorated with chamfer and pyramid stops. Several original windows have been blocked. The roof features one row of slightly stepped butt purlins with pared-off tenons, full principal rafters with a cut-away section for the purlin, and a deep, narrow ridge-piece. Notably, the bays do not align with the wall-bays.