Whatton House and Attached Stables
WHATTON HOUSE AND ATTACHED STABLES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1359393
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jan-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Whatton House and Attached Stables
- Statutory Address:
- WHATTON HOUSE AND ATTACHED STABLES
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1359393
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jan-1989
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 16-Feb-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Whatton House and Attached Stables
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHATTON HOUSE AND ATTACHED STABLES
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:
- WHATTON HOUSE AND ATTACHED STABLES
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- North West Leicestershire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Long Whatton and Diseworth
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 49351 24164
Details
SK 42 SE
5/203
LONG WHATTON,
WHATTON HOUSE GROUNDS,
Whatton House and attached stables
II
Country house with attached stables. Circa 1802, by John Johnston for
Edward Dawson. HOUSE part rebuilt and extended after series of fires in 1870s
and 1880s. Ashlar with hipped slate roofs. Original double pile extended by
late C19 wings to west and north. 3 storeys; 3-bay east front. Classical in
style, with rusticated ground floor, moulded first floor string, plain frieze,
and modillion cornice with short blocking course above. Chimneys also have
friezes and moulded cornices. Centre bay rebuilt late C19 with square
projection and pediment, formerly bowed. Late C19 sashes without glazing bars,
those to ground floor outer bays tripartite with stone mullions. Ground floor
windows have stone architrave surrounds; first floor windows have cornices on
scroll brackets. Windows to front of central projection have moulded architrave
surrounds with shoulders, the first floor window also with pulvinated frieze and
segmental pediment. Below are late C19 double doors with architrave surround,
and a porch with entablature and parapet on Tuscan-Doric columns. Left side has
4 original bays and 4 late C19 matching bays. Upper windows are similar to
those on east front; ground floor has 2 sets of late C19 French doors with
rusticated arches, and 2 late C19 canted bay windows. At left end, to rear of
stables, is a colonnade of 1974. Right side of house has 5 bays of sashes and
late C19 single-storey wing in matching style, with door in projecting bay.
INTERIOR: has delicate marble fireplaces in early C19 style, possibly original,
but possibly copied or re-sited after fires. Delicate plaster ceiling in ground
floor room to left is also c1800 in style but, if at all original, has been
adapted to late C19 bay window and C20 partition wall. Central staircase hall
is late C19, with galleries on 2 sides.
STABLES attached to rear surround 3 sides of a courtyard, with gates across the
fourth side. Most of 1802 structure survives. Whitewashed brick with slate
roofs. Right wing has stable doors and windows in 7-bay blind arcade, with
doors and windows to loft above. Another lower bay with arch at near end. Far
wing has irregular openings and late C19 wooden clock turret with bell-cote.
Left wing is partly of later build and has later C19 3-bay coach-house at near
end.
Listing NGR: SK4935124164
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 358249
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 26 Leicestershire,
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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