9, BURTON STREET
9, BURTON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1096002
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-2002
- List Entry Name:
- 9, BURTON STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 9, BURTON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1096002
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-2002
- List Entry Name:
- 9, BURTON STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 9, BURTON STREET
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:
- 9, BURTON STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Melton (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 75308 19065
Details
890/0/10013 BURTON STREET
22-NOV-02 9
GV II
House, formerly vicarage, now offices. C16/early C17, remodelled c.1750, and with later C19 additions and C19 and C20 alterations. Red brick front with stone dressings and with rendered stone rubble rear and gault brick rear wings. Slate roof with stone-coped gables and with brick truncated end stacks and a further rear stack. T-plan originally, with rear wing; further rear wings added. 2 storeys, cellar and attic. Front to Burton Street is a 3-window range at first floor of canted 2-storey bays with C20 windows with C20 window between under stone lintel. 2 late C19 attic gables above with dormer between. Central 2- leaved door in C19 brick frontespiece. On left end a blank gable wall with casements on the rear wing. Right gable adjoins No.11 (q.v.). To rear are various doors and C19 and C20 windows including a 5-light stone-framed window to ground floor left.
INTERIOR. Front reception room to left has cornice moulding, chamfered bridging beam and reeded surrounds to doors, and room to right has shallow-arched alcoves either side the chimney-breast. Boxed beam. Stone flagged entrance passage leads to staircase hall with fine early C18 dogleg stair rising from ground floor to attic. This is set across the rear gable end and has ramped handrail, a closed string and moulded column-on-bobbin balusters. The attic rooms in the front range have C18 2- and 4-panel doors with HL hinges. Roof purlins visible. Small door of C17 panelling leads to roofspace stair. Roof to front range and central rear wing has heavy purlins and coupled rafters and may be a C18 re-use of an earlier roof.
This, the Vicarage of Melton Mowbray for at least 300 years to 1899, is mentioned in documents of 1609 and 1660 and was remodelled before 1760 by Rev.Thomas Middleton. The main range walls and part of the interior date from this period. The front bays and gables and rear wings date from later C19 remodellings, and from 1899 until the 1st World War, the Vicarage was let as a hunting box. It then became the Blakeney Institute. It is part of a very significant group of historic buildings in Burton Street including the Church of St. Mary (q.v.).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 489892
- 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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