LEAHURST

LEAHURST, LEASHAW

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1039869
Date first listed:: 25-Sep-1951
List Entry Name:: LEAHURST
Statutory Address:: LEAHURST, LEASHAW

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1039869
Date first listed:: 25-Sep-1951
List Entry Name:: LEAHURST
Statutory Address 1:: LEAHURST, LEASHAW

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: LEAHURST, LEASHAW

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Derbyshire
District:: Amber Valley (District Authority)
Parish:: Dethick, Lea and Holloway
National Grid Reference:: SK 32488 56017

Details

SK 35 NW PARISH OF DETHICK, LEA AND HOLLOWAY LEASHAW (OFF) 1/76 25-9-51 Leahurst

GV II

Small Country House. Dated 1825, when the building was considerably enlarged and refashioned, but C17 in origin. Coursed squared rubble gritstone with ashlar dressings, coped gables with moulded kneelers and ball finials, intermediate and end ashlar ridge stacks, the one to the north-east of the entrance porch with clustered octagonal pots. Asymmetrical plan in imitation of the local C17 vernacular interdispersed with free Gothic detailing. Principal range of two storeys with attics, dominated by gabled projecting crosswings, and gabled dormers, generally with 2 and 3-light chamfer mullioned windows, beneath hoodmoulds or drips, but with some glazing bar sashes. North-west elevation with long two storey projection to north-east end, possibly the C17 part, with shallow projecting gable stack. To the south-west, a low gable with pointed traceried window, and then a broad two bay gable. Further to the south-west a gabled porch of two and a half storeys, with 2-light chamfer mullioned windows below stopped hoodmoulds above a four centred arched head to a moulded entrance doorway with half glazed double doors with Gothic glazing to apex. Above the door, a dated plaque inscribed N 1825. To the south-west of the porch, 3 single light openings with Gothic heads, and above, a 3-light mullioned window with segmental heads to lights below a flat head, and with heavy corbels to cills. Deep canted bay to end, single storey, with balustraded parapet. Garden elevation with broad projecting wing, also with canted two storey bay with ashlar crenellations to parapet. The house was the home of Florence Nightingale and her family.

Listing NGR: SK3248856017

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Legacy System number:: 78723
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.