The Tower House
THE TOWER HOUSE, 32, RUSHES LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1061477
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-1989
- List Entry Name:
- The Tower House
- Statutory Address:
- THE TOWER HOUSE, 32, RUSHES LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1061477
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-1989
- List Entry Name:
- The Tower House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE TOWER HOUSE, 32, RUSHES LANE
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 TOWER HOUSE, 32, RUSHES LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Harborough (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lubenham
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 70532 87133
Details
LUBENHAM RUSHES LANE SP 7087-7187 (east side) 7/49 No 32 (The Tower House)
GV II
House, formerly a C18 farmhouse, substantially altered, Gothicised, and converted into a hunting box in 1865 for Benedict John Angell. Brick with stone dressings. Slate roofs. 2 brick gable stacks. South front: altered C18 range: 2½ storeys, 3 bays. first floor stone band. Dentilled eaves cornice. Central doorway flanked by C19 canted bays with cross windows. Above, 3 cross windows, all with stone quoins and hoodmoulds. To left of central window, a datestone inscribed: J C 1771. Above again, 3 gabled 2-light dormers. Then, at left, a C19 2-storey, 2-bay forward-standing addition with bargeboarded gables and first floor brick string- course. Left bay has a 2-storey pointed bay window, with Gothic tracery. Right bay has a polygonal bay window, with 2-light pointed arch window above. West elevation has brick plinth and first floor string. Then from left to right, a 2-storey tower with circular corbelled staircase turret with conical roof and a 2-light pointed arch window, with a lancet above, plus 2 small plaques inscribed "1865" and "B.I.A". To right, a gabled bay with a 2-light window with flat arch, and to right again, a 3-light oriel window with conical roof. To right again, a corbelled-out stack. All windows have tracery.
Listing NGR: SP7053287133
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 191376
- 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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