ENTRANCE GATEWAY WITH LODGE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDING (NOW STABLE END, MIDDLE FLAT, STUDIO FLAT, AND DRYING GREEN COTTAGE) TOGETHER WITH GARDEN WALLS AT MANOR HOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1061549
Date first listed:: 29-Dec-1966
List Entry Name:: ENTRANCE GATEWAY WITH LODGE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDING (NOW STABLE END, MIDDLE FLAT, STUDIO FLAT, AND DRYING GREEN COTTAGE) TOGETHER WITH GARDEN WALLS AT MANOR HOUSE
Statutory Address:: ENTRANCE GATEWAY WITH LODGE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDING (NOW STABLE END, MIDDLE FLAT, STUDIO FLAT, AND DRYING GREEN COTTAGE) TOGETHER WITH GARDEN WALLS AT MANOR HOUSE

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Date:: 1999-09-09
Reference:: IOE01/00529/26
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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1061549
Date first listed:: 29-Dec-1966
List Entry Name:: ENTRANCE GATEWAY WITH LODGE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDING (NOW STABLE END, MIDDLE FLAT, STUDIO FLAT, AND DRYING GREEN COTTAGE) TOGETHER WITH GARDEN WALLS AT MANOR HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: ENTRANCE GATEWAY WITH LODGE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDING (NOW STABLE END, MIDDLE FLAT, STUDIO FLAT, AND DRYING GREEN COTTAGE) TOGETHER WITH GARDEN WALLS AT MANOR HOUSE

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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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: ENTRANCE GATEWAY WITH LODGE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDING (NOW STABLE END, MIDDLE FLAT, STUDIO FLAT, AND DRYING GREEN COTTAGE) TOGETHER WITH GARDEN WALLS AT MANOR HOUSE

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 63952 96697

Details

NEWTON HARCOURT SP 69 NW 2/126 29.12.66 Entrance Gateway with Lodge and attached Outbuilding (now Stable End, Middle flat, Studio Flat, and Drying Green Cottage) together with Garden Walls at Manor House. GV II Entrance gateway, lodge, and outbuilding, (now 4 dwellings), and garden walls. Earlier C17 and C19 with C20 alterations. Ashlar, red brick diapered with black brick in part, and Swithland slate and pantile roofs. Earlier C17 gateway of ashlar with segmental arch and imposts. Either side a fluted pilaster with reversed taper. Entablature over with coping and end finials. Lodge of c1830, partly rebuilt C20, is rendered and shingle-clad with black glazed pantile roof and brick end stack. Gable facing has 5-light canted bay, with leaded lights and 2-light casement over. On right side a porch with Tudor arch and door, 1-light leaded casement to right and similar 2-light over. The outbuilding of 1.1/2 storeys is of brick with rubble stone plinth and has Swithland slate front and pantile rear roofs, 2 and 3-light C20 casements, 2 dormers and buttresses. Doors to rear. Inside are visible tie-beam trusses with clasped principals. The walls, in part probably of C17, are of brick, diapered in part, coped with brick and black glazed pantiles, c2.1/2m high, and form a forecourt to Manor House (q.v.) and border garden to left of lodge. V.C.H., Vol.V and Pevsner.

Listing NGR: SP6395296697

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Legacy System number:: 191149
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Page, W , The Victoria History of the County of Leicester, (1964)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Leicestershire and Rutland, (1960)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.