The Firs

The Firs, 4, Church Lane

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1236658
Date first listed:: 10-Nov-1955
List Entry Name:: The Firs
Statutory Address:: The Firs, 4, Church Lane

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1236658
Date first listed:: 10-Nov-1955
List Entry Name:: The Firs
Statutory Address 1:: The Firs, 4, Church 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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: The Firs, 4, Church Lane

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

District:: Rutland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Lyddington
National Grid Reference:: SP 87582 96935

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 10 November 2021 to update text and reformat to current standards

SP 8696-9796 9/60

LYDDINGTON CHURCH LANE No 4 (The Firs)

10.11.55

GV II

House. Late C16-C17, incorporating remains of C15 cruck structure. Altered C20. Ironstone rubble, rear and left gable with frequent bands of pale limestone rubble. Front has roughcast eaves below raised C20 pantile roof. Formerly thatched. C17 ashlar chimney of pale limestone to left, with moulded necking and cornice; matching chimney between left bays rebuilt in concrete C20. Two storeys, three bays. C20 two and three-light wooden casements with horizontal glazing bars and wooden lintels, rear windows retaining C16-C17 bonded jambs of pale Ketton limestone. C20 door in gabled wooden porch between right bays. Additional C19 bay to right with slate roof, brick chimney and three-light wooden casement to ground floor.

Interior: chamfered arch-braced cruck truss between right bays; one other cruck blade incorporated in adjacent C16-C17 chimney; this chimney has re-used C15-C16 moulded and embattled wooden lintel to ground floor fireplace; moulded stone fireplace in left bay; heavy stop-chamfered spine and side beams in central ground floor room.

Listing NGR: SP8758296935

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

Legacy System number:: 427721
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

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