CHESTER HOUSE

CHESTER HOUSE, 26, MELTON ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1074974
Date first listed:: 11-Sep-1979
List Entry Name:: CHESTER HOUSE
Statutory Address:: CHESTER HOUSE, 26, MELTON ROAD

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Date:: 2001-05-19
Reference:: IOE01/03963/07
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1074974
Date first listed:: 11-Sep-1979
Date of most recent amendment:: 26-Feb-1992
List Entry Name:: CHESTER HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: CHESTER HOUSE, 26, MELTON ROAD

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

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:: CHESTER HOUSE, 26, MELTON ROAD

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

County:: Leicestershire
District:: Melton (District Authority)
Parish:: Waltham on the Wolds and Thorpe Arnold
National Grid Reference:: SK 80052 24802

Details

In the entry for

SK 8024 WALTHAM MELTON ROAD (west side) 26/429 Chester House (formerly listed 11.9.79 as Melton Road Farmhouse)

GV II

The address shall be amended to read

SK 8024 WALTHAM MELTON ROAD (west side) 26/429 Chester House (No 26) (formerly 11.9.79 listed as Melton Road Farmhouse)

GV II

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WALTHAM MELTON ROAD (West side) SK 8024 Chester House (formerly 26/429 listed as Melton Road 11.9.79 Farmhouse).

GV II

House, formerly farmhouse. Mid-late C18, altered C19 and C20. Coursed squared limestone, slate roof, brick end stacks. L-plan. 2-storey, 3- window range. Central 4-panel, part-glazed door with flat-arched head, key block and large-boarded gabled hood on brackets. Horned sash windows to ground floor with flat-arched heads and key blocks. 3-light windows to 1st floor left and right with central sliding light to 2-light casement window to 1st floor centre, all with similar heads. Ogee-arched foot-scraper niche to left of door. Single-storey extension to left with pantile roof with casement and paired sash windows with wood lintels. Full-height wing to rear right with casement windows. Interior has stop-chamfered spine beams.

Listing NGR: SK8005224802

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

Legacy System number:: 190357
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.