Wheatsheaf House
WHEATSHEAF HOUSE, BELL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1180253
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Wheatsheaf House
- Statutory Address:
- WHEATSHEAF HOUSE, BELL LANE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/04381/27
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1180253
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Wheatsheaf House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHEATSHEAF HOUSE, BELL LANE
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:
- WHEATSHEAF HOUSE, BELL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Harborough (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Husbands Bosworth
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 64131 84283
Details
HUSBANDS BOSWORTH SP 68 SW BELL LANE (West Side)
8/40 Wheatsheaf House (previously listed as "No 3") 7.12.66
GV II
House. Partially early C.16, partly later C.16 or early C.17. Main range with cross wing. Main range has the earlier core, and is rendered with plain tiled roof, but cruck framed internally. It contains renewed casement windows on each floor. Big axial stack with stone base, and another on right hand gable. Cross wing is late C.16 or early C.17. Flamboyant timber framing with brick nogging. Post and truss construction with angle posts on padstones and a middle rail: Coved and jettied gable above close-studded first floor and cambered tie beam with painted Tudor Roses in the spandrels. The gable itself comprises decorative panels, with lozenges, etc. Doorway to left and early C.20 canted bay with leaded lights. Single renewed casement window above. Side elevation of 2 wide arch-braced bays with close studding, above ground floor of ironstone rubble with one original caveto moulded mullioned window.
Listing NGR: SP6413184283
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 191261
- 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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