Lessingham House
LESSINGHAM HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1259565
- Date first listed:
- 11-Dec-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Lessingham House
- Statutory Address:
- LESSINGHAM HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1259565
- Date first listed:
- 11-Dec-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Lessingham House
- Statutory Address 1:
- LESSINGHAM HOUSE
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- LESSINGHAM HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Rugby (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Leamington Hastings
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 44593 67572
Details
LEAMINGTON HASTINGS
SP 46 NW
Lessingham House
1724-0/5/10003
II
House, formerly vicarage. Early C19; reputedly built in 1822 for the Reverend Henry Wilmot-Sitwell. Red brick. Slate hipped roof with lead rolls to hips and ridge and deep eaves. Brick axial stacks with yellow clay pots. PLAN: Rectangular plan with central entrance on the east front and with service wing on the north side. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and cellar. Symmetrical 3-bay east front with 12-pane sashes with keyed lintels and the ground floor with side lights; central doorway, the doorcase with consoles supporting pediment and with glazed and panelled door. The other elevations have similar sash windows; the north side with lower gable-ended wing on left with casement windows with glazing bars and porch in the angle with canopy over panelled door. INTERIOR: Original joinery including panelled doors and open-well staircase with stick balusters and mahogany handrail wreathed over curtail newel. Moulded plaster ceiling cornices and marble chimney pieces. Brick vaulted cellar.
Listing NGR: SP4459367572
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 462767
- 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.
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