Sysonby Lodge

Sysonby Lodge, Nottingham Road, Melton Mowbray

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1264940
Date first listed:: 12-Oct-1976
List Entry Name:: Sysonby Lodge
Statutory Address:: Sysonby Lodge, Nottingham Road, Melton Mowbray

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1264940
Date first listed:: 12-Oct-1976
List Entry Name:: Sysonby Lodge
Statutory Address 1:: Sysonby Lodge, Nottingham Road, Melton Mowbray

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:: Sysonby Lodge, Nottingham Road, Melton Mowbray

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

County:: Leicestershire
District:: Melton (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SK 74518 20874

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 14 January 2025 to amend the name and reformat the text to current standards.5305

SK 72 SW 4/174

NOTTINGHAM ROAD (East Side) Sysonby Lodge

II Early C19. Said to have been built, as a hunting lodge, by the Earl of Plymouth, on the site of a late C18 cottage. Originally known as Plymouth Lodge. Main or western facade rendered over brickwork, plinth, and band at first floor. Moulded cornice. End pilasters and pilasters dividing window bays. Slate roof.

Five windows, the centre three bays of three storeys (the third added). Eaves band. Outer bays have parapet. North side has square bay window with a three- light sash and one side light. Rest are sashes with boxed frames and glazing bars. Centre advanced door with balcony above and Regency doorcase with fanlight and side lights, doors replaced. Balustrade above. Reeded side panels and stone steps.

Interior has some six-panelled doors and an early C19 fireplace on ground floor with broken pediment, dentil cornice and mirror with arch and side pilasters. Arch across this room. Some panelling brought from elsewhere, including some pieces with low relief carving possibly of C17 date.

The Lodge stands on a hill above fields and a brook and occupies a prominent position. Sir Winston Churchill, Lord Beatty and the American Vanderbilts hunted from here.

Listing NGR: SK7451820874

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Legacy System number:: 426456
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.