Description

TF 1409-1509 MARKET DEEPING HIGH STREET
(north side)

14/160 The Laurels

II

House, now rest home for the elderly. C18, c.1800, c.1830, 1875.
Squared yellow limestone rubble with limestone ashlar quoins and
dressings. Collyweston slate roof with moulded raised stone
coped gables, pinnacles. 2 valley stacks each with 4 moulded
octagonal shafts. Parallel range plan. 2 storey, 4 bay front,
the left hand 3 bays are c.1830 and slightly advanced. Plinth,
moulded first floor band, moulded parapets. Off-centre door with
cusped panels and tall narrow side lights, covered by ashlar flat
roofed porch with 4 centred outer arch, octagonal pilasters
supporting a coped parapet, flanked by single 2 storey
rectangular bay windows with shaped gables and pinnacles with
single 3 light windows to each floor, all with moulded hoods and
trefoils in the gables. Over the porch is a mullioned and
transomed margin light casement, with moulded hood and decorative
stops, and above a shield and moulded wall stack. To the right a
2 storey rectangular bay window with 4 lights to each floor and
in the shaped gable over a shield bearing the initials WPN and
date 1875 in raised letters. At the rear is a c.1800 bow window
with Gothick frieze and a tall window with Gothick tracery
lighting the stair.

Listing NGR: TF1416009872

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26642310

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Recommended Books

• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings