SOMERBY HOUSE FARMHOUSE

SOMERBY HOUSE FARMHOUSE, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1177554
Date first listed:: 07-Jan-1988
List Entry Name:: SOMERBY HOUSE FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: SOMERBY HOUSE FARMHOUSE, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1177554
Date first listed:: 07-Jan-1988
List Entry Name:: SOMERBY HOUSE FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: SOMERBY HOUSE FARMHOUSE, CHURCH LANE

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:: SOMERBY HOUSE FARMHOUSE, CHURCH LANE

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

County:: Leicestershire
District:: Melton (District Authority)
Parish:: Somerby
National Grid Reference:: SK 77898 10488

Details

SK 7610 - 7710 SOMERBY CHURCH [,ANE

(west side) 19/118 Somerby House Farmhouse

G.V. II

Farmhouse, now a house. Early C18 with mid and late C19 and C20 additions and alterations. Coursed and squared ironstone and brick, with limestone ashlar dressings, with slate roofs. Coped gables, 4 coped stone gable stacks. 2 storeys plus attics, 4 bays. T-plan. East front has to right a glazing bar sash flanked to left by a larger triple sash and to right by a plain sash, all with keystoned splayed heads. Above, 4 C19 plain sashes of various sizes, all with keystoned splayed heads. Above again, 3 slate hung gabled dormers each with a 2 light casement. North front has a gabled wing to left, with a full width lean-to porch with C20 door flanked by single glazing bar sashes. Beyond, to left, a slotted casement. Above, a small garret casement. Rear wing north wall has an off-centre panelled door, flanked to left by a C19 casement and to right by a sash. Above, 2 plain sashes. All the windows have keystoned heads. Return angle to left has a full width lean-to porch. To right, a door. To its left, 2 casements. Above, 2 small sashes. South gable has 2 sashes and above, to left, a similar sash. Above it, a smaller sash to the garret. All these sashes have keystoned heads. Beyond, to left, set back rear wing has a sash, and above it a gabled dormer. Beyond, to left, a 2 storey flat roofed C20 addition. Return angle has to left a door, and to right a 3 light mullioned casement with hood mould. Above, 2 small sashes.

Listing NGR: SK7789810488

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Legacy System number:: 189875
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.