Harborough Cottage
HARBOROUGH COTTAGE, 6, STAPLEFORD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1295253
- Date first listed:
- 21-Feb-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Harborough Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- HARBOROUGH COTTAGE, 6, STAPLEFORD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1295253
- Date first listed:
- 21-Feb-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Harborough Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- HARBOROUGH COTTAGE, 6, STAPLEFORD ROAD
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:
- HARBOROUGH COTTAGE, 6, STAPLEFORD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Rutland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Whissendine
- National Grid Reference:
- SK8253914398
Details
WHISSENDINE
SK 81 SW STAPLEFORD ROAD (West side)
5/163 No.6 (Harborough Cottage)
GV II
Cottage of c1850, removed c1860. Coursed rubble stone with plinth, stone
dressings, timber framing with red brick nogging, and Collyweston slate
roof with left ridge and rear ashlar stacks. Gable to left. 1½ storeys
of mullion and transom windows with hood moulds. In gable a stone gabled
porch with Tudor arch and door within. 3-light window over. To right
a 4-light with a section of jettyed timber framing over. On left end
a 3-light, a further porch and small gable with 2-light. On right end
a 3-light, door, and 2-light with canted 5-light wooden oriel in timber-framed
gable above. This cottage, presumably with similar description; was originally
built for the Earl of Harborough in Cottage Plantation, Stapleford Park,
nearby. Some time after 1859 the stone and bricks were removed and the
present cottage built here. Stapleford Park guide, 1958, p.26.
Listing NGR: SK8253914398
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 186733
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Stapleford Park guide, (1968), 26
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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