Braunstone Hall

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Small country house dated to 1776 by the architect William Oldham (later Lord Mayor of Leicester). Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1200536
Date first listed:: 23-Feb-1955
List Entry Name:: Braunstone Hall
Statutory Address:: Braunstone Hall

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1200536
Date first listed:: 23-Feb-1955
List Entry Name:: Braunstone Hall
Statutory Address 1:: Braunstone Hall

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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Location

Statutory Address:: Braunstone Hall

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

District:: City of Leicester (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SK 55785 03338

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BRAUNSTONE HALL

II

Small country house dated to 1776 by the architect William Oldham (later Lord Mayor of Leicester).

MATERIALS: Built of brick and stone with hipped, slate roof

EXTERIOR: Entrance front of three storeys and five windows. These six over six glazing bar sashes with flat brick arches. Central bay slightly recessed to full height and terminates in a round-headed arch. Double stone band over ground floor, stone band over first floor. Central windows have moulded stone architraves, the top one cambered headed, and the first floor one with frieze and cornice. Stone sills. Stone modillioned eaves, cornice and blocking course. Stone plinth. Central stone doorcase in three bays. Three-quarter columns with fluted caps and semi-circular arch enclosing panelled door with ornamental fanlight. Outer bays with narrow sash windows and attached three-quarter outer piers in suite with the central columns. Triglyph frieze, mutule cornice and pediment.

Side elevation similar general character; two projecting chimney breasts each; the west side with a later three-storey wing. Park front, as entrance front but with no central recess. The central window on each floor has a moulded stone architrave, that on first floor with frieze and cornice, the top floor cased, and the ground floor with a central doorcase with architrave and pediment. Wing set back to left dated 1911, two sash windows, three storeys, similar general style, stone modillioned cornice and blocking course, hipped slate roof. Set in landscaped park.

INTERIOR: Hall with marble Ionic columns, contemporary staircase and iron balusters, more plain at the upper levels. Ground floor room with moulded cornice, frieze, and fireplace, doorcases with carved cornices and friezes. Entrance opened up into the reception rooms either side. Many original fire surrounds surviving throughout. Brick vaulted cellar.

HISTORY: Braunstone Hall built in 1776 for Clement Winstanley by a local architect and builder William Oldman (later Lord Mayor of Leicester). The hall was built on a rise overlooking Charnwood Forest and set in 100 acres of parkland. Clement died in 1808 and the next to become heir was his eldest son Clement, J. P., Lieutenant Colonel of the Leicestershire Militaria from 1802-9. He was also the Chairman of the Leicester and Swanington Railway which opened in 1832. He died unmarried in 1855. After a brief spell in the ownership of his nephew James Beaumont, Braunstone Hall passed to James' sister Anna Jane Pochin. In 1904 Anna relinquished the estate in favour of her son Richard Norman who changed his name by deed poll to Winstanley. In 1911 he extended the south side of the hall by adding a wing with toilets and bathrooms. The initials W, R&K and the date are evident in the brickwork. In 1925 while still in residence Leicester Corporation compulsory purchased Richard Winstanleys' land in Braunstone for much needed housing.

SOURCES: Engravings in Nicholls 'History of Leicestershire'.

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION Braunstone Hall is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * It is an C18 house which has survived well with a good interior * The architect was William Oldman, later Lord Mayor of Leicester, which adds interest.

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Legacy System number:: 188587
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Nichols, J, History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester 1775-1811, (1811)

Legal

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