MAISON DIEU BEDEHOUSES

MAISON DIEU BEDEHOUSES, BURTON STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1265186
Date first listed:: 24-Oct-1950
List Entry Name:: MAISON DIEU BEDEHOUSES
Statutory Address:: MAISON DIEU BEDEHOUSES, BURTON STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1265186
Date first listed:: 24-Oct-1950
List Entry Name:: MAISON DIEU BEDEHOUSES
Statutory Address 1:: MAISON DIEU BEDEHOUSES, BURTON STREET

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:: MAISON DIEU BEDEHOUSES, BURTON STREET

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 75324 19019

Details

1. 5305 BURTON STREET (East Side) Maison Dieu Bedehouses SK 7519 SW 1/5 24.10.50.

II* GV

2. 1640, restored in 1890. Almshouses, the gift of Robert Hudson, Citizen and Haberdasher of London and a native of Melton Mowbray. Coursed stone with plinth and dressings. Steeply pitched stone slate roof with 3 gables over windows and central door. Centre gable has Hudson Coat of Arms in stone between 2 diminutive Ionic pilasters, small cornice and inscription. Lintel of central door inscribed 'Maison Dieu 1640". 2 storeys. Under each side gable is a 4 light ground floor and 3 light upper floor window. Under centre gable a door with moulded depressed stone arched flanked by 2 light windows. Centre upper storey window of 5 lights. All fenestration is of C17 (restored) with stone mullions and dripstones.

All the listed buildings in Burton Street form a group of which Nos 24 to 36 (even) are of local interest.

Listing NGR: SK7532419019

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Legacy System number:: 425768
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.