Wortley Cottages
WORTLEY COTTAGES, 1-6, STATION ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1177879
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Wortley Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- WORTLEY COTTAGES, 1-6, STATION ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1177879
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Wortley Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- WORTLEY COTTAGES, 1-6, STATION 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:
- WORTLEY COTTAGES, 1-6, STATION ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Blaby (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Elmesthorpe
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 46966 96013
Details
ELMESTHORPE STATION ROAD SP 49 NE (north east side)
1/26 Nos.1-6 Wortley Cottages inclusive 19/1/1970 II
6 cottages. Built in 1896 to the designs of C F A Voysey for Lord Lovelace of Kirkby Mallory. Brick, roughcast and whitewashed, with hipped Swithland slate roof. At each end of the front,a diagonal buttress. 6 roughcast stacks, those at the ends external. 2 storeys, 6 bays. The row is designed to appear as 3 symmetrical pairs. At the front, each pair has a central hipped porch with a 6 light leaded casement and a door in each side, 4 of these being the original close-boarded doors with decorative hinges. The central 4 mainly retain the original fenestration with single 4 light casements on each floor, those to the first floor with leaded glazing. No.1, to the left, has a 3 light C20 casement on each floor. No.6, to the right, has a C20 glazing bar casement on each floor. At the rear, each pair has a hipped outbuilding and several late C20 additions. Above, a continuous 6 light strip casement. Nos. 4 and 5 have altered glazing.
Listing NGR: SP4696696013
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 189016
- 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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