HOUSE AT SWITHLAND RESERVOIR WATER WORKS

HOUSE AT SWITHLAND RESERVOIR WATER WORKS, KINCHLEY LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1188205
Date first listed:: 15-Mar-1984
List Entry Name:: HOUSE AT SWITHLAND RESERVOIR WATER WORKS
Statutory Address:: HOUSE AT SWITHLAND RESERVOIR WATER WORKS, KINCHLEY LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1188205
Date first listed:: 15-Mar-1984
List Entry Name:: HOUSE AT SWITHLAND RESERVOIR WATER WORKS
Statutory Address 1:: HOUSE AT SWITHLAND RESERVOIR WATER WORKS, KINCHLEY LANE

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:: HOUSE AT SWITHLAND RESERVOIR WATER WORKS, KINCHLEY LANE

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

County:: Leicestershire
District:: Charnwood (District Authority)
Parish:: Quorn
National Grid Reference:: SK5547314664

Details

WOODHOUSE KINCHLEY LANE (West side) SK 51 SE ROTHLEY 4/183 House at Swithland Reservoir Water Works GV II House of 1896. By Hawkesley of London. Red brick, stone banded with stone coped shouldered gables and slate roof with stone banded ridge and side stacks. 2 storeys in 'Queen Anne' style with sash windows, most having moulded stone surrounds and architraves. Front of 2 gables with recessed central section of 2 arched arcade and 2-light dormer with top lights in roof which is carried down. Within arcade are 2 doors both with steps and stone surrounds. Single door to left and 2 leaved part glazed door to right. Gable to left has canted bay with 3 6/6 sashes and a 6/6 sash over. Gable to right has tripartite 4/4: 6/6: 4/4 sash with Leicester City crest over and further 6/6 sash above. Stone obelisks on shoulders. On left end a blocked door, a pair of 6/6 sashes with a further 6/6 sash over. On right end 2 1-light windows with a 6/6 sash over. Left gable on rear similar to right front gable, otherwise further sash windows and extending from right a 1 storey outhouse followed by another. Ridge stack on first. Complex stands in parklike setting with choice trees and shrubs. Group value with the other items at Swithland Reservoir Water Works.

Listing NGR: SK5547314664

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Legacy System number:: 189241
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.