The Manor House
THE MANOR HOUSE, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1061447
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jan-1955
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- THE MANOR HOUSE, MAIN STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1061447
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jan-1955
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE MANOR HOUSE, MAIN STREET
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:
- THE MANOR HOUSE, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Harborough (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cotesbach
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 53858 82288
Details
SP 58 SW COTESBACH MAIN STREET (south side)
3/5 The Manor House 11/01/55 II GV
House. Reputedly built in 1630 by George Bennett, a London merchant. Altered late C17 and late C18. Red brick. plain tile hipped roof. Lateral stack to right, ridge stack to left with 4, diagonally set shafts and corbelled lateral stack to rear wing. U-shaped plan. Tall plinth. Moulded 1st floor band. North front: 2 storeys and attic, 4 irregular bays. Off-centre C18 doorway with C17, 9-panel studded door, with carved fan pattern, and frame with arched head with carved spandrels. C18 overlight. To left a single 3-light mullion and transom window opening casement. To right, a similar window, followed by a former doorway, with chamfered stone jambs and round arch, now a 2-light window. Above to left, another 3-light window, and to right, a 2-light mullion and transom window. Above again 2 dormers with shallow pitched roofs and glazing-bar sashes. East elevation has half-timber gabled porch, and doorway with C17 plank door.
Listing NGR: SP5385882288
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 191407
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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