Wistow Hall, Including Flats, And, in Wing, Brown's Flat, Dairy Cottage, Laundry Cottage, Brew House, Forge Cottage
WISTOW HALL, INCLUDING FLATS, AND, IN WING, BROWN'S FLAT, DAIRY COTTAGE, LAUNDRY COTTAGE, BREW HOUSE, FORGE COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1061546
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Wistow Hall, Including Flats, And, in Wing, Brown's Flat, Dairy Cottage, Laundry Cottage, Brew House, Forge Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- WISTOW HALL, INCLUDING FLATS, AND, IN WING, BROWN'S FLAT, DAIRY COTTAGE, LAUNDRY COTTAGE, BREW HOUSE, FORGE COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1061546
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Wistow Hall, Including Flats, And, in Wing, Brown's Flat, Dairy Cottage, Laundry Cottage, Brew House, Forge Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- WISTOW HALL, INCLUDING FLATS, AND, IN WING, BROWN'S FLAT, DAIRY COTTAGE, LAUNDRY COTTAGE, BREW HOUSE, FORGE COTTAGE
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:
- WISTOW HALL, INCLUDING FLATS, AND, IN WING, BROWN'S FLAT, DAIRY COTTAGE, LAUNDRY COTTAGE, BREW HOUSE, FORGE COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Harborough (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wistow
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 64162 95822
Details
WISTOW Wistow Hall,including flats, SP 69 NW 2/117 19.10.51 and, in wing, Brown's Flat, Dairy Cottage, Laundry Cottage, Brew House, Forge Cottage. GV II* Country house, now 11 dwellings. Early C17, with later C18 alterations, remodelled c1815. Colourwashed rendered brick and Swithland slate hipped roof with colourwashed rendered ridge and truncated side stacks. Plinth and parapet. H plan. Entrance front of 2.1/2 storeys of 7 6/6 sash windows, 3 in recessed centre. 5 3/3 sash dormers. On ground floor 2 6/6 sashes on each wing and 1 storey addition filling central section. Flat roof with low parapet. A 9/9 sash either side a French window/door with top lights. On the corners of each wing an octagonal turret buttress with stepped plinth and octagonal low conical roof. On left end the garden front with further 6/6 and 2/2 sashes. On left a ground floor bow window with 3 2/2 sashes and on right a 2 storey bow window with 3 2/2 sashes both floors. On right end a 1.1/2 storey wing with mainly C20 2-light wooden mullion and transom windows. Cambered brick lintels with keystones. Band and moulded brick eaves. Formerly outbuildings, this wing was converted to dwellings mid C20. Inside main range, in the Entrance Hall, a coved ceiling with later C18 stucco work. Above this is said to be the C17 roof. Staircase with later C18 wrought-iron balustrade. C17 panelling, some probably reset. Stone doorway with Tudor arch. Wistow was bought in 1603 by the Halford family and the basic house is probably of this period. Alterations, including the formation of the Staircase Hall, were made in the later C18. The remodelling c1815 included the formation of the corner turret buttresses and the entrance vestibule. Charles I stayed at Wistow before the Battle of Naseby and he and Prince Rupert left their saddles here when changing horses on their flight after the battle. They are preserved in the house.
Listing NGR: SP6416295822
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 191140
- 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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