Stable Block at Nevill Holt Hall Preparatory School
STABLE BLOCK AT NEVILL HOLT HALL PREPARATORY SCHOOL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1061619
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jul-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Stable Block at Nevill Holt Hall Preparatory School
- Statutory Address:
- STABLE BLOCK AT NEVILL HOLT HALL PREPARATORY SCHOOL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1061619
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jul-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Stable Block at Nevill Holt Hall Preparatory School
- Statutory Address 1:
- STABLE BLOCK AT NEVILL HOLT HALL PREPARATORY SCHOOL
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:
- STABLE BLOCK AT NEVILL HOLT HALL PREPARATORY SCHOOL
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 81694 93660
Details
NEVILL HOLT
SP 89 SW
6/107 Stableblock at Nevill Holt Hall Preparatory School 21.7.66
GV II* Stableblock, now classrooms, workshops, gym and swimming pool. Late C17, with additions and alterations C18 and C19. Coursed rubble stone with quoins and stone dressings and Collyweston slate hipped roof with 4 moulded stone ridge stacks. Plinth and battlemented parapet. Large central clock turret. 2 storey ranges round quadrangle with carriage entraces in the middle of each side, that on left open, and between 2 blocks. Front, with only pedestrian entrances, has, on 1st floor, 8 3-light stone mullion windows with leaded lights. 6 similar windows on ground floor (2-light to far left and right in blocked wider frame.) A doorway centre left and centre right. Moulded stone frame with 4-centred arch, keystone and hood mould. Above is a panel with pilaster strips either side and central wider strip with carved cartouche. Moulded cornice. This front has an ashlar pedimented central section. Moulded stone central doorway with 4-centred arch, keystone and hood mould. To either side a pilaster with stopped flutes. Above is a semicircular pediment and central cartouche. Over this, at eaves level, the pediment proper with moulded cornice and central projecting panel. The battlements continue over this pediment. The C18 clock turret is on the roof ridge above this central section. Lead and painted wood. A leaded and moulded base with small 1-light. Above ridge level a square turret with moulded corner pilasters and projecting cornice. Clockfaces to front and right. Above is an open octagonal lantern with diamond-pattern balustrade. Leaded octagonal ogee roof with weathervane. On left and right ends are further 3-light stone mullion windows with leaded lights and hood moulds. On right end a probably C19 ashlar central gabled section with carriage archway. Segmental 4-centred arch with hood mould. Blank tablet over. Battlements continue over gable. Rainwater head dated 1805. Pevsner, and V.C.H., Vol. V.
Listing NGR: SP8169493660
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 191010
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Leicester, (1964)
Pevsner, N, Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Leicestershire and Rutland, (1984)
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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