Welland House

15, THE SQUARE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1227904
Date first listed:
19-Sept-1977
List Entry Name:
Welland House
Statutory Address:
15, THE SQUARE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1227904
Date first listed:
19-Sept-1977
List Entry Name:
Welland House
Statutory Address 1:
15, THE SQUARE
Statutory Address 2:
WELLAND HOUSE, 17, THE SQUARE

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
15, THE SQUARE
Statutory Address:
WELLAND HOUSE, 17, THE SQUARE

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

County:
Leicestershire
District:
Harborough (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SP 73421 87145

Details

THE SQUARE
1.
5303
(South East Side)
Nos 15 and 17
(Welland House)
SP 7387 1/52
II GV

2.
Set in east wall of No 15 is a polished granite stone tablet of circa 1903
commemorating the dead of the South African war 1899-1902. (The ironstone used
in the facade of Nos 15 and 17 is reputed to be from the old Church of St Mary
in Arden). C18 facade. Ironstone with brick rear. Slate roof. 2 storeys and
4 gabled dormers above. Good moulded wood eaves cornice. 6 windows, sashes with
glazing bars. 2 large angled bays on ground floor. Dormers have 2-light Gothick
arched windows with finials and scalloped bargeboards. 2 similar mid C18 doorcases
in moulded stone with reeded pilasters, panelled reveals and open pediments.


Listing NGR: SP7342187145


This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 19 January 2017.

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
189747
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 19 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/55066
War Memorials Online, accessed 19 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/228446

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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