Rothley Court Hotel and the Chapel
ROTHLEY COURT HOTEL AND THE CHAPEL, WESTFIELD LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1278606
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jul-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Rothley Court Hotel and the Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- ROTHLEY COURT HOTEL AND THE CHAPEL, WESTFIELD LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1278606
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jul-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Rothley Court Hotel and the Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROTHLEY COURT HOTEL AND THE CHAPEL, WESTFIELD LANE
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:
- ROTHLEY COURT HOTEL AND THE CHAPEL, WESTFIELD 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 57679 12300
Details
ROTHLEY
SK 51 SE WESTFIELD LANE (South Side)
6/127 9.7.51 Rothley Court Hotel and The Chapel
GV I
Hotel, formerly mansion, and attached chapel. C13, C17/C18 (stack dated 1742) and 1895. Garden front and wing by John Ely, Manchester, 1894/5. Granite rubble stone, with small part red brick, with stone dressings, stone and brick and stone cornice and parapet in part, and Swithland slate roof with brick ridge and side stacks. Hotel entrance front has a projecting gable either end, that to right with stone buttresses. 2½ storeys of 11 6/6 sash windows. Five 2-light dormers, the central with rounded gable. 2-light casement in left gable attic. Probably C19 central stone porch in Renaissance style with rounded arch, pilasters, entablature and battlements. Part-glazed door inside. Garden front to left has projecting stack dated 1742, and the 1894/5 wing mullion and transom windows with leaded lights, and with a two storey canted bay to left and loggia with two bay arcade to right. Rear has picturesque gables with sashes and attic casements. Inside are C18 oak staircase and C17 and C18 panelling, some with bolection moulding. Doorways with stone pointed arches in rooms next to Chapel. The Chapel, to right of entrance front, restored 1896, has E window facing. Single nave with two storey S corridor linking house. Stepped buttresses and angle buttresses. Tall lancets with cusped heads, hood moulds and label stops. One to W and three either side to N and S. Large 3-light C15 E window, with shaft either side to half way up. Inside, the lancets have a roll-moulding round frame and E window a moulded arch and shafts to sides. Piscina with cusped head and shaft either side. Roll-moulded sill band in part. On S wall fragment of painting with writing in medieval English script. Restored four-bay tie beam truss double-purlin roof with double collars, curved braces and waved wind braces. Round vase font possibly C13, a small marble cartouche of the Babington arms of possibly C17 and three C18 Babington hatchments. S doorway has arch with hollow chamfer and the corridor/porch a quadrapartite rib vault. The restored doorway, facing E between Hotel and Chapel has a many-moulded arch with shaft either side. This mansion was known till recently as Rothley Temple. It was a Preceptory of the Knights Templar, to whom the manor was given by Henry III. After their suppression it was given to the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem. At the Dissolution it became a private house and the seat of the Babington family. Lord Macaulay was born here on 25th October, 1800. Pevsner.
Listing NGR: SK5767912300
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 405340
- 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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