Parsons Farewell
Parsons Farewell, 399, Ratby Lane
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1074717
- Date first listed:
- 23-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Parsons Farewell
- Statutory Address:
- Parsons Farewell, 399, Ratby Lane
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1074717
- Date first listed:
- 23-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Parsons Farewell
- Statutory Address 1:
- Parsons Farewell, 399, Ratby Lane
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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.
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:
- Parsons Farewell, 399, Ratby Lane
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Blaby (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kirby Muxloe
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 52378 04867
Details
SK 50 SW
4/44
KIRBY MUXLOE
RATBY LANE
No 399 (Parsons Farewell)
II
Former school and schoolmaster's house, at one time used as vicarage, now house and shop.1857, by William Butterfield; altered 1929 by George Nott. Ground floor is mostly of brick with bonded stone window jambs; upper storey rendered and whitewashed with half-timbering; tiled roof, half-hipped to left, with ornamental ridge; battered brick chimneys with pilasters.
Former schoolmaster's house of one and a half storeys to left, with main school-room formerly in lower cross wing to right. Irregular battered buttresses to ground floor. Asymmetrically picturesque.
Schoolmaster's house is of two wide bays with entrance hall between. Narrow barred wooden sashes with shaped heads. Left bay has bind upper storey jettied on brackets, and three-light window to ground floor. Right bay has three-light and single light windows to former infants' room on ground floor, two-light window in large half-hipped semi-dormer, and single light in smaller matching semi-dormer to left. Between bays is a door in gabled half-timbered porch of 1929, and a two-light wooden casement above, also inserted 1929.
Gable of school-room wing projects to right, formerly of one storey, but converted to two 1929. This gable end is completely half-timbered on brick plinth, with upper storey jettied on shaped brackets. Cusped bargeboards with pierced ornament. C20 leaded casements, five-light to ground floor, four-light above. Weathercock. Right side has central buttress and retains one original two-light leaded window. Lean-to lobby, probably of later date, to rear gable. Rear of house has been raised and altered.
Listing NGR: SK5237804867
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 188966
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
The Builder, (12 December 1930), 377
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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