Ivy House Farmhouse

IVY HOUSE FARMHOUSE, 22, MAIN STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1064269
Date first listed:
07-Dec-1962
List Entry Name:
Ivy House Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
IVY HOUSE FARMHOUSE, 22, MAIN STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1064269
Date first listed:
07-Dec-1962
List Entry Name:
Ivy House Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
IVY HOUSE FARMHOUSE, 22, MAIN STREET

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
IVY HOUSE FARMHOUSE, 22, MAIN STREET

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 47706 23590

Details

LONG WHATTON MAIN STREET SK 4723 13/193 No 22 (Ivy House Farm- house) 7.12.62 GV II

House. Late C17 with C19 casements. Red brick with irregular vitreous headers, all laid in English bond. Rubble stone plinth with chamfered coping, flush dressed stone quoins, and gable copings. Swithland slate roof. 2 rebuilt brick chimneys with pairs of square shafts linked by off-set tops. Double pile. 2 storeys, attic and cellar. 2 gabled bays to front. Horizontal sliding sashes with wooden glazing bars and high segmental header arches over brick tympana. Ground and first floors have 3-light windows; 2-light windows to attics in gables and to central staircase. C20 single light inserted to ground floor right. 2 cellar windows in chamfered stone surrounds to left bay. Return walls have single lights, some blocked, near front corners. To right is a 2-storey extension with later outshot to front and C20 porch to rear. South front of house has 2-bays of 3-light barred wooden casements with segmental heads, a large horizontal 2-light sash to first floor right, and a central flush-panelled door with small single light above. Interior has large rooms on south side with ovolo-moulded spine beams, one room also with ovolo-moulded fireplace lintel. Smaller north rooms with simpler beams flank central staircase which retains original newel posts and some splat balusters on flight to attic. Heavy stud partitions divide north and south rooms. Original roof with trenched double purlins, high collars and some wind-braces.

Listing NGR: SK4770623590

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Legacy System number:
358240
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.

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