1-6 BRICKYARD COTTAGES

1-6 BRICKYARD COTTAGES, BOSWORTH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1177890
Date first listed:: 20-Dec-1983
List Entry Name:: 1-6 BRICKYARD COTTAGES
Statutory Address:: 1-6 BRICKYARD COTTAGES, BOSWORTH ROAD

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Date:: 2006-09-21
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1177890
Date first listed:: 20-Dec-1983
List Entry Name:: 1-6 BRICKYARD COTTAGES
Statutory Address 1:: 1-6 BRICKYARD COTTAGES, BOSWORTH 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:: 1-6 BRICKYARD COTTAGES, BOSWORTH ROAD

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

County:: Leicestershire
District:: North West Leicestershire (District Authority)
Parish:: Measham
National Grid Reference:: SK 33657 12122

Details

MEASHAM BOSWORTH ROAD SK 31 SW 4/34 Nos. 1 - 6 Brickyard Cottages (Consecutive) GV II Reputedly brick drying shed, now range of cottages, of c1800. Red brick - Measham gobs - with brick eaves and band over arches and plain tile roof with 2 rebuilt ridge stacks, end stack and C20 left end projecting stack. Long range of 3 storeys, ground floor being row of 12 arches, some part blocked and all with garage or other doors. Above is 7 window front of renewed or altered casements with mostly flat lintels. Outshut on right end. Left end cottage (No. 1) and left end rendered. Extensions and renewed casements to rear and C20 dormer on rear of No. 6. Reputedly built as brick drying shed (Falconer, DOE Industrial Monuments Survey, 1981, p2) and said locally to have been the brickyard where Wilkes produced the Measham gobs.

Listing NGR: SK3365712122

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Legacy System number:: 187923
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Falconer, , 'Industrial Monuments Survey' in Industrial Monuments Survey, (1981), 2

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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.