Lilly's Cottage
LILLY'S COTTAGE, 54, HALL GATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1064266
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Lilly's Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- LILLY'S COTTAGE, 54, HALL GATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1064266
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1962
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 16-Jan-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Lilly's Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- LILLY'S COTTAGE, 54, HALL GATE
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:
- LILLY'S COTTAGE, 54, HALL GATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- North West Leicestershire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Long Whatton and Diseworth
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 45301 24534
Details
LONG WHATTON HALL GATE SK 4424-4524 (Diseworth) 12/183 No 54 (Lilly's Cottage) 7.12.62 (includes part formerly listed as No 5 Peacock Cottage) GV II*
House, formerly 2 dwellings. Originally C15, extended mid C16, left wing rebuilt C17 and altered C19, all refurbished 1950s. Timber frame on rubble stone plinth, the left side and far end of left wing rebuilt. thatched roof. Brick chimney shafts to left of C16 wing and to front corner far end on left wing. L-plan, 2 storeys. C16 WING to right is of 3 bays and has fine close studding with curved braces and colourwashed render infill. Just below eaves line on north side are pairs of small wind-eyes for ventilating upper storey. Irregular C20 casements, the north side with large 4-light wooden casement to ground floor left, 2-light casement to right of centre, 3 single metal lights between studs to first floor left, and 2-light horizontal sash to first floor centre. Ground floor windows have wooden glazing bars. South side has C20 barred wooden casements, one semi-dormer to left, and traces of a small original 3-light window to first floor. C17 WING has large rectangular panels of brick infill, the front with 3-light horizontal sash and C20 door to cross passage at right side. Door has C20 thatched hood. INTERIOR: cruck truss with yoked apex to right of cross passage; plastered cross passage wall with graffiti dated 31 March 1692, with the initials of Richard Lilly, and small drawings of hands, stars, a tower and a steeple; heavy floor joists in C16 wing; heavy stud partition between ground floor left bays of same wing; timber-framed fire hood between right bays; altered roof trusses. Home of William Lilly, 1602-81, notorious court astrologer. An inventory of the goods of a William Lillye, 1635, presumably relating to this house, survives in Leicester Record Office and is printed in M W Barley, The English Farmhouse and Cottage, 1961 and 1967, p.278-9.
Listing NGR: SK4530124534
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 358230
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Barley, M W, The English Farmhouse and Cottage, (1961), 278-9
Barley, M W, The English Farmhouse and Cottage, (1967), 278-9
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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