Manor House
MANOR HOUSE, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1180324
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- MANOR HOUSE, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1180324
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MANOR HOUSE, MAIN STREET
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:
- MANOR HOUSE, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Harborough (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Illston on the Hill
- National Grid Reference:
- SP7056099178
Details
SP79NW
4/56
19.10.51
ILLSTON ON THE HILL
MAIN STREET (South Side)
Manor House
II
GV
House. Late C17 and dated 1794. Coursed rubble stone with plinth, quoins and
stone dressings, rendered to side and rear in part, and red brick rear
extension. Welsh slate front and Swithland slate rear roof, with brick end
stacks. Stone band and brick dentilled eaves. L plan, short wing projecting
to rear. Main range gable facing, front to right. 2 1/2 storeys of stone
mullion windows : 3-light, 2-light, 3-light. 3-lights on ground floor have
transoms. Central stone doorway with moulded Tudor arch and 6-panelled door,
the upper 4 panels glazed. 2-light attic casement on left, facing, gable. 2
and 3-light casements and stone mullion windows to rear, where also 1 1/2 storey
brick extension with Welsh slate lean-to roof. Chamfered beams and 2 late C18
fireplaces inside. Over front door a carved stone tablet with the Needham
arms and inscribed 'in parvo quies'. On band to either side 'M.H. 1794' for
Mary Heard who bought and partly rebuilt the house then. V.C.H., Vol. V.
Listing NGR: SP7056099178
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 191078
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Leicester, (1964)
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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