1, THE DRIVE

1, THE DRIVE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1074769
Date first listed:
21-Sept-1981
List Entry Name:
1, THE DRIVE
Statutory Address:
1, THE DRIVE

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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1074769
Date first listed:
21-Sept-1981
List Entry Name:
1, THE DRIVE
Statutory Address 1:
1, THE DRIVE

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

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:
1, THE DRIVE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Leicestershire
District:
Blaby (District Authority)
Parish:
Countesthorpe
National Grid Reference:
SP 57020 95375

Details

COUNTESTHORPE

SP59 NE THE DRIVE (West Side)

1/21 No. 1

21.9.81

GV II

House, one of the Countesthorpe Cottage Homes built by the Leicester Poor Law Union in 1884. Architect I Baradale. Brick with plain tiled roof. Cruciform plan with main range of 3 bays, 2 storeys. Central bay projects forward, kitchen wing extends out at the back. "Queen Anne" style. Main elevation has irregular fenestration with a mixture of 2, 3, 4 and 5 light windows with timber mullions. Each light consists of a small vertical sash window. The ground floor of the protecting bay has a 3 light moulded stone mullioned and transomed window. On the left hand side of the central bay is a brick porch with a tiled roof supported on a short circular stone pillar. The right hand bay has a gabled dormer window rising from the eaves. Gable stacks.

Listing NGR: SP5702095375

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
188891
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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