Boyers Lodge
BOYERS LODGE, WARREN LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1307550
- Date first listed:
- 23-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Boyers Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- BOYERS LODGE, WARREN LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1307550
- Date first listed:
- 23-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Boyers Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOYERS LODGE, WARREN 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:
- BOYERS LODGE, WARREN LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Blaby (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Leicester Forest East
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 52635 02662
Details
LEICESTER FOREST EAST WARREN LANE SK 50 SW 4/47 Boyer's Lodge
II
House. Early C17, with left bay rebuilt C19-C20, and early C18 rear wing. Refurbished c.1985. Timber-frame with whitewashed brick infill is exposed in right gable and is visible inside in original rear wall. Front is roughcast. Granite rubble plinth. Rear wing is of narrow brick with burnt headers. Thatched- roof, brick chimneys. Irregular T-plan. One storey and attic, 3-bay front. Right bay have C20 3-light barred wooden casements, those to ground floor bowed, those to attic in large thatch eyebrows. Ground floor of left bay has similar 2-light bowed window and C20 arched double doors. Gable ends and rear wing have matching casements. C20 lean-to in angle to rear of right bays. Interior has timber-framing with long tension braces in wall between left bays, and stop- chamfered spine beams and joists. Thomas Boyer, one of the keepers of the Royal Forest, is recorded in 1628 as one of several purchasers of Forest land. The house is said to be of the only surviving keeper's lodge associated with Leicester Forest. (John Nichols, History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester, 1775-1811, Vol. IV, p.785).
Listing NGR: SK5263502662
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 188969
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Nichols, J, History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester 1775-1811, (1811), 785
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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