THE BEDEHOUSES AND ADJOINING OUTBUILDINGS

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:: THE BEDEHOUSES AND ADJOINING OUTBUILDINGS, SAXBY ROAD

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Date:: 2005-04-11
Reference:: IOE01/14049/10
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Official list entry

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

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:: 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

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Legacy System number:: 189815
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.