Carey's House

CAREY'S HOUSE, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1176903
Date first listed:
10-Nov-1955
List Entry Name:
Carey's House
Statutory Address:
CAREY'S HOUSE, CHURCH LANE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1176903
Date first listed:
10-Nov-1955
Date of most recent amendment:
29-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:
Carey's House
Statutory Address 1:
CAREY'S HOUSE, CHURCH LANE

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CAREY'S HOUSE, CHURCH LANE

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

District:
Rutland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Barrowden
National Grid Reference:
SP 94536 99998

Details

BARROWDEN SK 90 SW CHURCH LANE (North Side)

6/ 13 Carey's House (formerly listed as Rectory) 10.11.55

GV II

House. In small part C18, mainly of 1834. Fine coursed rubble stone with ashlar quoins, plinth, Is floor band and dressings. Hipped Welsh slate roof with 4 moulded stone stacks. 2 storeys of 3 8/8 sash windows over 8/12. Stone sills and lintels. Corners and centre project slightly. In latter the sash has a moulded stone frame and is over stone doorcase. A pair of Tuscan pilasters either side with entablature over. 3 stone steps lead up to 4-panelled door with overlight whose glazing bars produce square and rectangular panes. On right side a similar 2 window front, the right lower sash with a tall narrow round-arched fixed-light window either side. On left side further sashes and doors and a 2½ storey wing to rear probably with C18 core. Inside are a stone flagged hall, contemporary staircase, four-panelled doors and simple marble fireplaces. White's Leicestershire and Rutland, 1877, for date of Rectory rebuilding.

Listing NGR: SP9453699998

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Legacy System number:
186835
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Whites Directory in Leicestershire and Rutland, (1877)

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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