Nos. 1 and 2 The Laurels are a pair of double-fronted semi-detached brick villas on the Gloucester Road, built in the 1890s. This section of the road between the crossroads and the common was still very rural at the time. The 1904 OS map shows that only three properties then fronted the west side of the road: Boundary Cottage, The Laurels (at position 332) and Summerfield, the rest of the land being fields.

Amongst the families who have occupied these houses are the Godwins at no. 2, who were in residence by 1921. Ernest Godwin was originally a wheelwright but worked for many years in Welland as a carpenter, builder and undertaker, building everything from pig huts to air-raid shelters to houses.