Laura Lodge And Covered Arcade To The Right

Laura Lodge is a detached house built in 1828, as stated in the title deeds. It features limestone ashlar and has a double pitched slate roof with tall moulded stacks at the returns. The building has a double depth plan and stands two storeys high with a basement, presenting a symmetrical three-window front.

The exterior includes a slightly returned coped parapet, a cornice, a cornice band, a ground floor platband, and a plinth. On the first floor, there are margin-paned French windows flanked by six/six pane sash windows that open onto a balcony supported by circles on the uprights beneath a swept canopy, all fronted by trellised railings. The ground floor verandah, which supports the balcony, has cast iron supports decorated with vine motifs, possibly from the late 19th century, and features scrolls and circles at the upper corners.

Flanking a studded four-panel door with a margin-paned overlight are six/six pane sash windows. The ground floor terrace has plain railings and is wreathed at the base of the steps leading up to the door. To the left, there is a parapeted ground floor range with a projecting gabled late 19th-century conservatory on iron poles above the basement entrance.

In the right front garden, there is an arcade of ten wrought iron arches with circles in the spandrels that support a segmental curved roof leading to the basement entrance. This house is a notable example of Late Georgian architecture, showcasing fine architectural ironwork. A photograph from 1945 in the National Monument Record shows plate glass sashes and a French window at the center of the first floor when the house was known as 'Kirton'.