Laurel Lodge — Hill Street

Attached three-bay two-storey over raised basement house, built c.1800 and given new facade c.1840, with porch to front, and with further lower bay to south having integral pedestrian archway to ground floor/basement level. Pitched slate roof with roughcast rendered and red brick chimneystacks to gable ends, cut-stone copings, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Porch has castellated parapet to flat roof. Roughcast rendered walling with smooth render to porch. Square-headed window openings, having stone sills, two-over-two pane horned timber sliding sash windows to ground and first floors with geometric glazing to upper sashes, timber casement windows to basement and cast-iron lattice stained glass to timber casement window above integral archway. Tudor-arch opening to porch with moulded render surround square-headed timber panelled and glazed door to interior with overlight, and accessed by wide flight of dressed stone steps having cast-iron railings with decorative newel posts. Elliptical-headed integral arch has moulded render surround, moulded cornice, and replacement steel gate. Lawned front garden bounded by cast-iron railings on stone plinth.