The Bedehouses and Adjoining Outbuildings
THE BEDEHOUSES AND ADJOINING OUTBUILDINGS, SAXBY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176897
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jan-1968
- List Entry Name:
- The Bedehouses and Adjoining Outbuildings
- Statutory Address:
- THE BEDEHOUSES AND ADJOINING OUTBUILDINGS, SAXBY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176897
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jan-1968
- List Entry Name:
- The Bedehouses and Adjoining Outbuildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE BEDEHOUSES AND ADJOINING OUTBUILDINGS, SAXBY 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 BEDEHOUSES AND ADJOINING OUTBUILDINGS, SAXBY ROAD
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 81223 18738
Details
SK 81 NW FREEBY SAXBY ROAD
Stapleford (east side) 6/43 The Bedehouses and adjoining out- 1.1.68 buildings
II
8 almshouses. 1732. Enlarged and remodelled in the Picturesque style, 1820. Brick with stone dressings, pantile and thatched roofs, 4 grouped ridge stacks, ashlar projecting quoins. Single storey plus attics, 16 bays. West front has a central pair of doors flanked by pairs of casements, flanked by pairs of doors, again flanked by pairs of casements andterminated by single doors. The doors have Tudor arched heads and the windows have 3 iron casements, all with projecting rusticated surrounds with keystone lintels. Above, 6 gabled dormers. North and south ends have each a door, that to south broken out, and a dormer above. Rear has the same pattern of fenestration as the front with small segmental headed casements and plank doors. Adjoining quadrangle of partly ruinous single storey outbuildings, 6 bays wide by 3 bays deep. Built for the Earl of Harborough and remodelled for his heirs to house Stapleford Park Estate workers.
Listing NGR: SK8122318738
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 189815
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 26 Leicestershire,
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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