THE HOMESTEAD

THE HOMESTEAD, 65, SWITHLAND LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1230295
Date first listed:: 11-Oct-1984
List Entry Name:: THE HOMESTEAD
Statutory Address:: THE HOMESTEAD, 65, SWITHLAND LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1230295
Date first listed:: 11-Oct-1984
List Entry Name:: THE HOMESTEAD
Statutory Address 1:: THE HOMESTEAD, 65, SWITHLAND 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:: THE HOMESTEAD, 65, SWITHLAND LANE

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

County:: Leicestershire
District:: Charnwood (District Authority)
Parish:: Rothley
National Grid Reference:: SK 56786 12867

Details

ROTHLEY

SK 51 SE SWITHLAND LANE (East Side)

6/118 No. 65 (The Homestead)

GV II

House. C18 with modifications c1920. Modifications possibly by G.E. Clare. Red brick and Swithland slate roof with brick end and rear stacks. Brick dentilled eaves cornice. Two ranges, main range to left. Three storeys of leaded light casements : 3-light, 2-light, 3-light with cambered lintels. 3 2-lights on 2nd floor, the central taller and projecting above eaves level. On ground floor a one storey flat-roofed projection c1920 with patterned lead band to edge of roof. On front to left a 5-light bow, central recessed porch with overlight and 4-light to right. Range to right probably raised ½ storey c1920. Two storeys of 2 3-light leaded casements with top lights. Below are door (probably C18) and overlight within rounded arch and 3-light and 1-light to right. Casements and French window on left end. Inside are brick vaulted cellars, chamfered ceiling beams, c4½m wide inglenook in former kitchen, though hood gone, staircase probably C18 in part, oak panelling c1920, and in the entrance hall a plasterwork frieze c2/3m high of c1920 depicting figures in Roman dress and farm animals. This house was formerly Rothley Plain Farm and was part of the Rothley Temple estate which, at the beginning of C20, was developed as Rothley Garden Suburb. The resident architect was George E. Clare, M.S.A., who probably altered the house and most of the adjoining outbuildings (now Nos. 57 - 63 Swithland Lane (q.v.). These buildings form an interesting group both architecturally and historically. Rothley Garden Suburb, a brief description, Rothley 1909.

Listing NGR: SK5678612867

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Legacy System number:: 405221
Legacy System:: LBS

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Rothley Garden Suburb A Brief Description, (1909)

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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.