Onion Cottage
Onion Cottage, The Mount, Dunton Bassett, LE17 5JL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1178225
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Onion Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- Onion Cottage, The Mount, Dunton Bassett, LE17 5JL
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1178225
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Onion Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- Onion Cottage, The Mount, Dunton Bassett, LE17 5JL
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:
- Onion Cottage, The Mount, Dunton Bassett, LE17 5JL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Harborough (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Dunton Bassett
- National Grid Reference:
- SP5457990605
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 19/12/2018
SP 59 SW
3/21
DUNTON BASSETT
THE MOUNT (north west side)
Onion Cottage
(Formerly listed as Cottage next south west of No.4 and attached barn)
GV
II
Cottage. An early C16 timber framed structure has been partially encased in the later C18. Timber framed core is clearly visible in the rear wall and comprises six panels of post and truss construction apparently now raised on padstones, with two middle rails, though some of these have now been removed. Brick between the timbers. The front elevation is of C19 brick, though a single vertical post survives centrally and there is a timber wall plate above. Both gables are of C18 brickwork. Corrugated sheeting covers the thatched roof.
One and a half storeyed, formerly two unit plan. The gable facing the street contains a three-light casement window with cambered brick head on each floor. In the front elevation the doorway is to the right, with a three-light casement window beyond it. Both these have cambered brick heads. The left hand unit has been broken into to form a garage, but the upper four light casement in an eyebrow dormer survives. Axial stack over deep inglenook.
Attached to the property to its rear at right angles and running along the street is a range of brick farm buildings, probably also of the later C18. Brick on brick plinth with Welsh slate roofs. Blocked doorway to street elevation, other doorways to rear.
Listing NGR: SP5457990605
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 191170
- 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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