6, LADY GATE

6, LADY GATE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1067766
Date first listed:
26-Feb-1979
List Entry Name:
6, LADY GATE
Statutory Address:
6, LADY GATE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1067766
Date first listed:
26-Feb-1979
List Entry Name:
6, LADY GATE
Statutory Address 1:
6, LADY 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.

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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:
6, LADY 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 45312 24467

Details

LONG WHATTON LADY GATE SK 4424-4524 (Diseworth) 12/186 No 6 26.2.79 - II

House. Late C15 - early C16, extended C17, part rebuilt C19, refurbished mid 1980s. Originally timber-framed, with cruck truss still exposed in left gable, post frame and truss exposed in right gable, and timber-framing surviving in rear wall of right bays. Otherwise rebuilt in brick. New thatch roof 1986. Rebuilt brick chimney shaft between left bays, in line with semicircular rubble stone projection containing oven and faggot chamber. 1 1/2 storeys; 3 bays. C20 3-light horizontal sashes, 3 to ground floor, 2 to first floor right in eyebrow dormers. Flush-panelled door between right bays. Oven projection has small external rectangular opening to faggot store. Later brick lean-to with slate roof at right end of house. Interior contains another cruck truss between left bays, and a post truss between right bays. Post trusses are com- posed of rough wavy timbers with inset principals almost ogee in shape. Original purlins, that to centre bay with one chamfered curved wind-brace. Chimney has altered fireplaces, that to left bay retaining base of firehood but with upper part of hood removed.

Listing NGR: SK4531224467

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
358233
Legacy System:
LBS

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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