Great Glen Hall, Including Cistern
GREAT GLEN HALL, INCLUDING CISTERN, LONDON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1061597
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Great Glen Hall, Including Cistern
- Statutory Address:
- GREAT GLEN HALL, INCLUDING CISTERN, LONDON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1061597
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Great Glen Hall, Including Cistern
- Statutory Address 1:
- GREAT GLEN HALL, INCLUDING CISTERN, LONDON ROAD
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:
- GREAT GLEN HALL, INCLUDING CISTERN, LONDON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Harborough (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Glen
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 65856 97685
Details
GREAT GLEN LONDON ROAD SP 69 NE 3/32 (North Side) 19.10.51 Great Glen Hall, including cistern. II Small country house. Earlier C19. Probably for Sir George Robinson Bt. Colourwashed stuccoed brick and Welsh slate low-pitch hipped roof with brick ridge stacks. In Nash villa style with band, wide bracketted eaves, and cast iron work with Egyptian details. 2 storeys of 5 2/2 sash windows on 1st floor : 2 on 2 2-storey bowed projections and 3 in 3 recessed giant depressed arches in centre and to either side of bows. Depressed arched lintels. On ground floor, from left, French window with top lights, bowed 2-leaved part-glazed door and 3 French windows with top lights. Along the whole front is an open verandah with glazed roof and cast iron supports, and which follows the bowed projections. Stone flagged floor. Further 2 storey bow on right end with 2/2 : 4/4 : 2/2 sash over tripartite French window. Inside is a staircase hall the walls of which are outlined as if ashlar. Stone flagged floor and staircase treads. Gallery supported on cast iron brackets and cast iron balustrade with Egyptian details. Lantern top. 6-panelled mahogany doors and marble fireplaces. Close to rear and linked to it by brick wall is a lead-lined water cistern of stuccoed brick in the Egyptian style. Octagon plan, c3m high and tapering towards top where hipped roof. Foliage cornice frieze. Lion's head tap spout towards garden and trough towards yard. Great Glen Hall, then known as the Manor House, was bought by C.W. Packe in 1847, and had previously been the property of Sir George Robinson, Bt. White's Leicestershire and Rutland, 1877, and Pevsner.
Listing NGR: SP6585697685
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 191054
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Leicestershire and Rutland, (1960)
Whites Directory in Leicestershire and Rutland, (1877)
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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