Hurst's Farmhouse
HURST'S FARMHOUSE, GLEN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1188297
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Hurst's Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HURST'S FARMHOUSE, GLEN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1188297
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Hurst's Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HURST'S FARMHOUSE, GLEN ROAD
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:
- HURST'S FARMHOUSE, GLEN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Harborough (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wistow
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 63918 97015
Details
GLEN ROAD (South Side) SP 69 NW 2/122 NEWTON HARCOURT Hurst's Farmhouse II House. Dated 1712 and early C19. Red brick, with some dark bricks, and Welsh slate roof with brick ridge, left end and rear stacks. Main front to rear, 2 ranges, that to right of 1712. Right range of 2 storeys. 5 casements on 1st floor : from left, centre-opening 3-light, 2-light, centre-opening 3-light, 1-light and 3-light. 3-lights have cambered lintel. On ground floor, from left, 3-light, blocked door and 1-light, centre-opening 3-light, door and 3-light, this last with cambered lintel . Plinth and band. Left range of early C19, possibly on C18 foundations. 3 storeys : a centre-opening 3-light casement on lst and ground floors and, on 2nd floor, a 3/3 sash window, 3-light horizontal sliding sash, 3/3 sash, and 1-light casement. On ground floor, to right, a gabled porch and 6-panelled door, the top 4 panels glazed. Facing Glen Road are various casements, 2 2/2 sashes and a part-glazed door. Inside are chamfered beams and 2 inglenook fireplaces. Facing Glen Road, on the earlier range, a stone tablet inscribed 'B' over 'RA 1712'. Formerly called The Poplars. V.C.H., Vol.V.
Listing NGR: SP6391897015
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 191145
- 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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