The Manor House With Garden Wall
THE MANOR HOUSE WITH GARDEN WALL, 18, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1177219
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1965
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor House With Garden Wall
- Statutory Address:
- THE MANOR HOUSE WITH GARDEN WALL, 18, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1177219
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1965
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor House With Garden Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE MANOR HOUSE WITH GARDEN WALL, 18, MAIN 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:
- THE MANOR HOUSE WITH GARDEN WALL, 18, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- North West Leicestershire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Heather
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 38993 10784
Details
SK 31 SE HEATHER MAIN STREET 5/18 24.11.65 No 18 (The Manor House) with Garden Wall
II*
House, early C18. Flemish bond brickwork on ashlar plinth, hipped slate roof. 3 storey, double pile plan. Symmetrical facade, central doorway up semi-circular steps with 6 panel door with overlight. Stone lintel and moulded architrave. 2 sash windows to each side, of 12-lights, with ganged brick heads and stone keystones, on which stone string courses rest. Upper storey of less height with 3 windows only. Plain eaves cornice. Side elevations have dentilled brick eaves cornice and segmental arched windows. Interior: early C18, oak well staircase with turned balusters and wainscot. Front left hand room has early C18 painted panelling, and left hand rear room has Jacobean panelling, perhaps from earlier house on this site. The house is built on the site of a commandery of the Knights Hospitalers of St. John of Jerusalem (the manor of Heather given to them c1170), , and the stone walls of the cellar are reputed to have belonged to this commandery.
The house is set in a walled garden adjoining the church.
Listing NGR: SK3899310784
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 187786
- 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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