NUMBERS 1-16 THE SQUARE, CHAPEL AND BOUNDARY WALL

NUMBERS 1-16 THE SQUARE, CHAPEL AND BOUNDARY WALL, FROLESWORTH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1061561
Date first listed:: 11-Jan-1955
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 1-16 THE SQUARE, CHAPEL AND BOUNDARY WALL
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 1-16 THE SQUARE, CHAPEL AND BOUNDARY WALL, FROLESWORTH ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1061561
Date first listed:: 11-Jan-1955
Date of most recent amendment:: 29-Apr-1986
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 1-16 THE SQUARE, CHAPEL AND BOUNDARY WALL
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBERS 1-16 THE SQUARE, CHAPEL AND BOUNDARY WALL, FROLESWORTH ROAD

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.

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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:: NUMBERS 1-16 THE SQUARE, CHAPEL AND BOUNDARY WALL, FROLESWORTH ROAD

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County:: Leicestershire
District:: Harborough (District Authority)
Parish:: Frolesworth
National Grid Reference:: SP5066590402

Details

FROLESWORTH FROLESWORTH ROAD (West Side) SP59 SW 3/23 Nos. 1-16 The Square, Chapel and Boundary Wall (formerly listed as Almshouses) 11.1.55

GV II Alms Houses with boundary wall and chapel. Original foundation was of 1725, when four houses were built, 10 more were added in 1761, 10 in 1796 and 1824. The existing buildings would appear to be largely of the late C18 to early Cl9: the resultant 24 cottages were modified to form 16 dwellings in c1965. Brick with Swithland slate roofs. Forms three sides of a courtyard, facing inwards. The chapel is central to the northern range, with an early Cl9 frontispiece: stone round headed archway with carved spandrels is flanked by a cupola containing clock.

Listing NGR: SP5066590402

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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.