THE RETREAT

THE RETREAT, STANFORD ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1188523
Date first listed:: 17-Oct-1986
List Entry Name:: THE RETREAT
Statutory Address:: THE RETREAT, STANFORD ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1188523
Date first listed:: 17-Oct-1986
List Entry Name:: THE RETREAT
Statutory Address 1:: THE RETREAT, STANFORD ROAD

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: THE RETREAT, STANFORD ROAD

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

County:: Leicestershire
District:: Harborough (District Authority)
Parish:: Swinford
National Grid Reference:: SP5698979400

Details

SP 57 NE 7/66 17/10/86

SWINFORD STANFORD ROAD (east side) The Retreat

II

House. Late C18. Red brick. Hipped slate roof with 2 stacks. overhanging eaves on paired brackets. Plinth. 2½ storeys. West front: 3 bays, symmetrical. Central doorway with moulded doorcase and flat hood on brackets. Raised and fielded 6-panel door with traceried overlight. To left and right, single glazing-bar sashes with painted flat arches with keystones. Above, 3 similar windows, the central on narrower. Above again, 3 similar but smaller windows. Long brick wing at rear, east.

Listing NGR: SP5698979400

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 191483
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.