Shepherd's Cottage
SHEPHERD'S COTTAGE, SAXBY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1061261
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Shepherd's Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- SHEPHERD'S COTTAGE, SAXBY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1061261
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Shepherd's Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHEPHERD'S COTTAGE, SAXBY ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- SHEPHERD'S COTTAGE, SAXBY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Melton (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Freeby
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 80768 17022
Details
SK 81 NW FREEBY SAXBY ROAD
Stapleford (east side) 6/47 Shepherd's Cottage
II
Shepherd's cottage, now a house. Mid C19 with mid C20 additions. Ironstone with limestone ashlar dressings and Westmorland slate roofs. Chamfered plinth, string course, moulded eaves, coped and crowstepped gables with kneelers, jettied first floor. Paired single ridge and single lateral stacks with octagonal stalks. 2 storeys, 2 bays. L-plan. West front has to right, a chamfered pointed doorway and to left, a 3 light mullioned and transomed casement with a cellar opening below it. North side has to left, a large mullioned and transomed casement and to right, a gabled wing with a 4 centred arched door. Above, to right, a 3 light mullioned and transomed casement. South side has to left, a gabled wing with a mullioned and transomed casement on each floor. In return angle to right, a C20 lean-to addition with 2 casements. East gable has a cellar opening and above it, a mullioned and transomed casement on each floor. The gable is topped with a pedimented single bellcote. This building was designed as a shepherd's lodge forming part of the outbuildings of Stapleford Park.
Listing NGR: SK8076817022
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 189819
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 26 Leicestershire,
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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