The Limes and Attached Garden Wall
THE LIMES AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1061536
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jan-1955
- List Entry Name:
- The Limes and Attached Garden Wall
- Statutory Address:
- THE LIMES AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1061536
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jan-1955
- List Entry Name:
- The Limes and Attached Garden Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE LIMES AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL, 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 LIMES AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Harborough (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Willoughby Waterleys
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 57478 92099
Details
WILLOUGHBY WATERLEYS MAIN STREET (West Side) SP59 SE 4/62 The Limes and attached garden wall 11.1.55
GV II House. Dated 1702. Brick with stone angle quoins and sill band. Welsh slate roof. 2 storeyed, 3 bays with central door in recently added porch. Flanking windows are 3-light casements with transoms (2-lights over the doorway), with gauged splayed brick heads. Coped gables with ball finials. Central stack forming baffle entry. Small lean-to flanking lower bays with a single 2-light casement window on each floor. Dated on a large stone over the doorway with initials TG, and decorated with small rosettes. Garden wall is attached to the house at one corner and forms a small enclosure in front of it. Brick with stone copings. Central gate piers have wide urn-like finials and are flanked by sections of wrought ironwork on low brick and stone plinth.
Listing NGR: SP5747892099
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 191210
- 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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