Swithland Hall
SWITHLAND HALL, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1074662
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jul-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Swithland Hall
- Statutory Address:
- SWITHLAND HALL, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1074662
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jul-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Swithland Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- SWITHLAND HALL, MAIN STREET
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:
- SWITHLAND HALL, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Charnwood (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Swithland
- National Grid Reference:
- SK5595812647
Details
SWITHLAND MAIN STREET (South Side)
SK 51 SE
4/92
Swithland Hall
25.7.79
II
Mansion partially completed by 1834 and finished by 1852. Designed by
James Pennethorne for G.J. Danvers-Butler, later Earl of Lanesborough.
Granite and slate rubble stone and brick wholly stuccoed and painted, with
Swithland slate roofs behind a parapet. Symmetrical stuccoed chimney stacks
with flues grouped in 2, 3 and 4's. A central block and 2 wings in a
restrained neo-classical style with banded rustication to ground floor,
1st floor sill band and dentilled cornice. 2 storeys, with in part a sunken
basement, of mostly 6/6 or tripartite sashes. Entrance front has 1 storey
porch with 4 paired Greek Doric fluted columns up 4 stone steps. Within a
2 leaved door with side lights and long overlight in 4 panels with astragals.
To either side a pedimented section with scroll-headed tripartite below and
Grecian oriel above with sash beyond. Wings either side then project forwards:
3 sashes both floors to sides and ends with one blank either side. On ends
2 low curving walls masking basements. On outer sides various sashes and
entrances to basements. Central block of garden front projects forward,
1-3-1, with central canted bay carried upwards to 2nd storey, with a large
carved tablet of the Danvers-Butler arms in the centre. Sashes either side
and below with ground floor central sash having partly glazed doors approached
by 2 stone steps. Urn on top of this section's roof. Further canted bays
on the ends of the block: 1 to right end and 2 to left. Further sashes on
rear of wings. Projecting from that to right a 1 storey flat-roofed ballroom
with central canted bay. Inside an entrance vestibule with semi-circular
ends leads to staircase hall with oak staircase of c1834. Turned and fluted
oak balustrade. Good decoration of room to left of vestibule probably of
same date. Elsewhere simple fireplaces, cornices and all original doors.
1852 on wing rainwater heads.
Listing NGR: SK5595812647
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 189148
- 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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