Buffalo Lodge with gate piers, gates and walls to either side of gate piers

Buffalo Lodge, Nevill Holt

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1061618
Date first listed:: 26-Apr-1985
List Entry Name:: Buffalo Lodge with gate piers, gates and walls to either side of gate piers
Statutory Address:: Buffalo Lodge, Nevill Holt

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Date:: 2002-11-03
Reference:: IOE01/06261/18
Rights:: © Mr David Foulds. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1061618
Date first listed:: 26-Apr-1985
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Jan-2002
List Entry Name:: Buffalo Lodge with gate piers, gates and walls to either side of gate piers
Statutory Address 1:: Buffalo Lodge, Nevill Holt

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:: Buffalo Lodge, Nevill Holt

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Leicestershire
District:: Harborough (District Authority)
Parish:: Nevill Holt
National Grid Reference:: SP 81198 93542

Details

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NEVILL HOLT Buffalo Lodge with gate piers, gates and Walls to either side of gate piers (Formerly listed as: Buffalo Lodge with gate piers, gates and walls) 26-APR-85 II Lodge with gate piers, gates and walls. Dated 1880. Lodge of coursed rubble stone with quoins and stone dressings and Collyweston slate roof with moulded stone central ridge stack. In Tudor style.

Stone coped gables with kneelers and finials. One and a half storey, gabled cross plan, main gable facing. Here a four-light canted stone bay with Tudor arched lintels and leaded lights. Cornice, and battlements pierced by crosslets. In angle to left a canted stone porch with hipped roof and plank door. Two-light window on left gable with one-light over. Two-light on right side of main gable, then two-light on right cross wing and similar stone bay on gable end. Brick rear yard walls end in pier with flame finial.

Extending from left end of Lodge a coursed rubble stone wall which links Lodge to left hand ashlar gate pier. The pair of piers, possibly C18 in origin, have set-in corners, moulded cornices, blocking course over, and carved stone heraldic finial on curved base. Bull's head surrounded by coronet. Total height approximately 5m. Between the piers are a tall panel either side, two gate piers and a pair of gates, all in wrought iron with scrolls and crestings. These are c4m high. Extending south from the right hand gatepier is another coursed rubble stone wall which ends in a brick pier with flame finial. Over the lodge bay window is a stone tablet inscribed 'B.C. 1880', for Sir Bache Cunard.

Listing NGR: SP8119893542

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Legacy System number:: 191006
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.