Close Cottage Hallside the Hall

CLOSE COTTAGE, MAIN STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1287423
Date first listed:
09-Jul-1951
List Entry Name:
Close Cottage Hallside the Hall
Statutory Address:
CLOSE COTTAGE, MAIN STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1287423
Date first listed:
09-Jul-1951
List Entry Name:
Close Cottage Hallside the Hall
Statutory Address 1:
CLOSE COTTAGE, MAIN STREET
Statutory Address 2:
HALLSIDE, MAIN STREET
Statutory Address 3:
THE HALL, MAIN STREET

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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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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CLOSE COTTAGE, MAIN STREET
Statutory Address:
HALLSIDE, MAIN STREET
Statutory Address:
THE HALL, MAIN STREET

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

County:
Leicestershire
District:
Charnwood (District Authority)
Parish:
Cossington
National Grid Reference:
SK 60544 13568

Details

COSSINGTON SK 61 SW MAIN STREET (East Side) 7/2 9.7.51 Hallside, The Hall and Close Cottage

GV II

House, now subdivided into 3 dwellings. C18, probably with Cl7 origins. White- washed brick and Swithland slate roof, with various ridge and end stacks. Windows in Strawberry Hill Gothic style. Projecting gables either end. 2½ storeys of mostly 2-light pointed arch casements: 1-light on left gable, 2 2-lights in centre, and 2 2-lights on right gable. Similar windows on ground floor and part-glazed door in right centre inner angle within large early C20 gabled wooden porch. Within each gable a similar 1-light, nogged brick band over and apex stack. Battlemented parapet along front. Rear garden front higher with 2 projecting wings, hipped roof, sashes and bay windows. Extending from left end of front along the street and then at right angles a rubble stone and brick garden wall c3m high with prominent buttresses. Entrance to Hallside on left side and to Close Cottage on right side.

Listing NGR: SK6054413568

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
402426
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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