Laburnum Cottage, including front railings, wall and gate

House in a picturesque style, roughcast brick and stone with sandstone dressings, slate roof and roughcast gable stacks. 2-storey, 2-bay frontage to Monk Street with further 3-bay and single bay continuous rear wing. Monk Street façade with leaded timber windows those to the first floor with vermiculated keystones. Main double projecting bay with double window with low balcony on deep console brackets to the first floor, tripartite window to the ground floor with pedimented surround on stylised brackets and with ‘LABURNUM COTTAGE’ carved into the frieze (this is a replica – the original was noted at inspection in the rear garden). Entrance bay to left with single window above projecting porch with segmental arch with bearded male head carved on the keystone, quoin stones, cappings, and male head spout. Heavy timber door, coloured glass set in narrow slit window in right return. Projecting forecourt wall to left is on the line of the medieval town wall and may incorporate masonry from it. Right return central projecting chimney stack, timber casement to ground floor left with bracketed hood. 12-pane Yorkshire sliding sash to right on first floor. Slim cills to both windows. Earlier part steps down to rear, 2-storey and 3-bays, left hand bay in line with the frontage gable, other 2 set back. Sliding sashes as before to the first floor, small window to left, central glazed door under canopy with wide 16-pane double hung sash to right. Later extension with modern windows. Left return (to car park) plain with buttressing of both early parts. Garden wall to rear (on left) is on the line of the medieval town walls and appears to incorporate masonry from it.

Subject to recent renovation works at time of inspection in early 2021. Surviving historic fabric and some detail throughout. Single room width and three rooms deep over two floors. Entrance on left leads into long hallway, exposed historic fabric to left, possibly relating to former town wall, with arched recess cut into the wall and later archway part-way down hall with panelled pilasters and composite capitals. Door adjacent on right to front room, chimney breast survives with arched recesses either side (right with window). At end of hallway single flight dog leg stair with turned newels, handrail and plain square section balusters, bathroom inserted under. Room to rear with further recess on the left with moulded pilasters and arch. Large stone fireplace in rear wall, 16-pane sash and glazed door. Doorway at rear left leads into later rear extension (now kitchen) of little interest except for remnant timbers in the internal dividing wall and visible stonework to left. First floor with WC on half landing and door to bedroom. Passageway at end of landing alongside wall to bedroom in rear extension, further 5-step flight of stairs up to front room, with cast iron fireplace with corbelled surround. 4-panelled doors with architraves, skirtings and cornices survive throughout.