The Laurels

The Laurels is a farmhouse consisting of two parts: a 16th-century two-cell main range and a service range from the 16th or early 17th century, which may have originally been a detached unit house and is positioned at right angles to the main range. These two sections are now connected by a later one-storey addition.

The main range features timber framing with exposed close studding and reverse-curved braces, while the rear is plastered. The roof is currently covered with polythene sheeting as it awaits replacement tiles; the front slope was originally tiled. The building is two storeys high and has three 19th-century sash windows with glazing bars, consisting of 16 panes on the ground floor and 12 panes on the upper floor. There is a blocked original window with chamfered mullions located at the lower right. The entrance is through a 19th-century brick porch that is plastered and designed to imitate ashlar, featuring scalloped bargeboards with a spike finial and a five-panel door with a glazed upper panel. The stack has a plain oblong shaft that was rebuilt in 1953, and there is another date, 1829, which may indicate when the tiled roof replaced the original thatch. The one-storey link to the right is plastered and has a plaintiled roof.

The service range is also timber framed and plastered, with a pantiled roof. It is two storeys tall, and the east gable end facing the road has a long slatted window on the ground floor, with the central section displaying original diamond mullions. In the apex of the gable, there is a pargetted design of foliage. The north side wall has additional slatted windows and various old casements, including one that is diamond-leaded. There are boarded doors on both the ground and first floors, and a stack at the west gable end, with most of the shaft rebuilt in the 19th century. The interior has not been examined, but it is reported that the upper floor remains entirely unmodernised.