GARDENER'S COTTAGE AND ADJOINING GARDEN WALLS, OUTBUILDINGS AND SUMMERHOUSE 100 METRES WEST OF STAPLEFORD HALL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1075134
Date first listed:: 24-Jul-1992
List Entry Name:: GARDENER'S COTTAGE AND ADJOINING GARDEN WALLS, OUTBUILDINGS AND SUMMERHOUSE 100 METRES WEST OF STAPLEFORD HALL
Statutory Address:: GARDENER'S COTTAGE AND ADJOINING GARDEN WALLS, OUTBUILDINGS AND SUMMERHOUSE 100 METRES WEST OF STAPLEFORD HALL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1075134
Date first listed:: 24-Jul-1992
List Entry Name:: GARDENER'S COTTAGE AND ADJOINING GARDEN WALLS, OUTBUILDINGS AND SUMMERHOUSE 100 METRES WEST OF STAPLEFORD HALL
Statutory Address 1:: GARDENER'S COTTAGE AND ADJOINING GARDEN WALLS, OUTBUILDINGS AND SUMMERHOUSE 100 METRES WEST OF STAPLEFORD HALL

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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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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Location

Statutory Address:: GARDENER'S COTTAGE AND ADJOINING GARDEN WALLS, OUTBUILDINGS AND SUMMERHOUSE 100 METRES WEST OF STAPLEFORD HALL

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

County:: Leicestershire
District:: Melton (District Authority)
Parish:: Freeby
National Grid Reference:: SK 81230 18089

Details

The following buildings shall be added to the list;

SK 81 NW FREEBY STAPLEFORD PARK

6/54 Gardeners' cottage and adjoining garden walls, out- buildings and summerhouse 100 M west of Stapleford Hall

G.V. II

Gardener's cottage, adjoining garden walls, outbuildings and summ erhouse. Late C18 and 1849, restored 1987. Coursed and squared ironstone and brick, with brick and ashlar dressings and hipped stone slate and plain tile roofs. Grouped central stone stack. 2 storeys, 2 bays. Cottage north front has a central gabled porch with bargeboards and 6 panelled door, flanked by single 2 light casements. Above, 2 cross eaves gabled dormers with bargeboards and 2 light casements. West side has a French window and above, to right, a leaded casement. Beyond, to west, lean-to sheds with 8 casements and 6 doors. Beyond, to east, an arched opening with keystone inscribed '1849'. Beyond again, a lean-to boiler house with a gable stack. Cottage south side has a lean- to greenhouse and above, coped parapet with 3 oval leaded windows. Beyond on each side, a lean-to greenhouse, that to right restored. East and west garden walls, approx. 100 M long, have each a central doorway with elliptical arched head. South garden wall has ramped higher central section with 4 square piers with ball finials and a pair of iron gates. North west corner has a C19 lean-to shed with central door flanked by single casements. West side has adjoining ramped coped wall with 6 piers and 2 oval openings and small square summerhouse reconstructed 1987. South west corner has a C19 L-plan outbuilding with round headed openings to north, south and east, that to north with C19 Romanesque surround. Included for group value only. Nearly adjoining C20 bungalow to north-west not included in this list.

Listing NGR: SK8123018089

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 189927
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.