The Old House
THE OLD HOUSE, 16, STATION ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1074725
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Old House
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD HOUSE, 16, STATION ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1074725
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Old House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD HOUSE, 16, STATION ROAD
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:
- THE OLD HOUSE, 16, STATION ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Blaby (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Narborough
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 54148 97034
Details
NARBOROUGH STATION ROAD SP 59 NW Littlethorpe 7/65 No 16 (The Old House) 13.10.52 (formerly listed as Littlethorpe House Farm- House)
II
House. Of 2 C16 builds with c.1930s fenestration. Timber-frame with close studding to front and right side of upper storey. Main left wing has curved braces, right wing has curved tension braces. Whitewashed brick and plaster infill, thatched roof, whitewashed brick chimneys to centre and to front right corner of cross wing. L-plan, with projecting gabled cross wing to right. 2 storeys. Left wing is of 3 bays with C20 barred wooden casements, mostly of 3 lights but with 2-light to first floor centre and single metal casement to ground floor left. C20 door to right with flat wooden hood on shaped brackets. 2-bay cross wing has 3-light casements to front, the lower wooden, the upper leaded. Upper storey is jettied to front on beam ends, with moulded brackets to either side and renewed corner posts carried down to ground. C19 whitewashed brick extensions to rear of cross wing. Interior: cross wing has queen strut trusses whereas left wing has raking queen post trusses with principal rafters set in from ends of tie-beams; heavy floor joists, those in left wing re-used and part smoke-blackened; left bay part rebuilt with C20 floor. House said to have been built 1560s for John Bent (Roy Millward, A History of Leicestershire and Rutland, 1985, p.72), but left wing may incorporate timbers of an older hall.
Listing NGR: SP5414897034
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 188987
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Millward, R, A History of Leicestershire and Rutland, (1985), 72
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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