Carlton Curlieu Hall
CARLTON CURLIEU HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1180165
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Carlton Curlieu Hall
- Statutory Address:
- CARLTON CURLIEU HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1180165
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Carlton Curlieu Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- CARLTON CURLIEU HALL
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:
- CARLTON CURLIEU HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Harborough (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Carlton Curlieu
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 69556 97114
Details
CARLTON CURLIEU Carlton Curlieu Hall SP 69 NE 3/24 19.10.51 GV II* Country house. Dated 1636, possibly with earlier origins with alterations late C17 and c1800. Ashlar with stone dressings and Swithland slate roof with moulded stone ridge and side stacks. String courses and stone coped Dutch gables with semicircular finials. Entrance front of 2 1/2 storeys and basement with 5 gables and windows. On lower 2 storeys stone mullion and transom windows with moulded eared architraves and mostly leaded lights. The stonework and window at either end project forward on lower 2 floors and have blocked 1-lights on ends. On 2nd floor, windows have moulded stone frames and wooden mullion and transom windows. Central stone 2 storey porch. Rounded archway with faceted keystone and a Roman Doric column either side. Stone cartouche of arms over. Door with Tudor arch. 3 semicircular stone steps. 2-light stone mullion windows in basement, some blocked. 1 storey extension on left end. Avenue front, to right, has 3 Dutch gables, 3 paired 6/6 sashes on lower 2 floors and a 6/6 sash in each gable. Moulded eared architraves on lower 2 floors. Blocked window. Rainwater heads here and on entrance front dated 1871. 1 storey extensions in rear kitchen yard. Inside are reset C17 panelling, C18 oak and pine panelling, bolection moulded stone and marble fireplaces, and probably later C17 oak staircase with heavy turned balusters and ball finials. Gable overlooking kitchen yard is inscribed "Sep.24, 1636 I.O.T.O." The seat of the Palmer family since the C17. V.C.H., Vol. V, and Pevsner.
Listing NGR: SP6955697114
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 191046
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Leicester, (1964)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Leicestershire and Rutland, (1960)
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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