OLD BLACKSMITHS HOUSE

OLD BLACKSMITHS HOUSE, 34, MAIN STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1074353
Date first listed:: 01-Sep-1983
List Entry Name:: OLD BLACKSMITHS HOUSE
Statutory Address:: OLD BLACKSMITHS HOUSE, 34, MAIN STREET

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Date:: 2001-06-19
Reference:: IOE01/03040/08
Rights:: © Ms Elaine Allen . Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1074353
Date first listed:: 01-Sep-1983
List Entry Name:: OLD BLACKSMITHS HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: OLD BLACKSMITHS HOUSE, 34, MAIN STREET

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: OLD BLACKSMITHS HOUSE, 34, 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:: Swannington
National Grid Reference:: SK 41532 16265

Details

SK 41 NW SWANNINGTON MAIN STREET

4/87 No 34 (Old Blacksmith's House) II

House, early c17. Coursed squared rubble with plinth. Gable to road. 2 storeys with attic. Gable facade has 2 light chamfered mullioned attic window. Other windows are casements with brick arched heads replacing original openings (traces of jambs survive). Brick cambered head to gable end doorway.

Church Lane facade has chamfered plinth & 2 2-light mullioned windows on 1st floor, blocked. Indications that roof has been heightened.

Listing NGR: SK4153216265

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 187854
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.