Holly Cottage
HOLLY COTTAGE, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1360874
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Holly Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- HOLLY COTTAGE, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1360874
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Holly Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOLLY COTTAGE, MAIN STREET
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:
- HOLLY COTTAGE, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Melton (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wymondham
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 85936 17574
Details
SK 81 NE WYMONDHAM MAIN STREET
Edmondthorpe (south side) 7/157 Holly Cottage
II
Lodge, now a house. 1868. Designed by R. W. Johnson. Coursed and squared ironstone with limestone ashlar dressings and Swithland slate roofs. Chamfered plinth, quoins, bracketed eaves, pierced bargeboards with finials, single lateral, paired ridge and single gable square stone stacks. Single and 2 storeys, 3 bays. T-plan. West front has a central gabled wooden porch with arch braces and moulded pointed doorcase with a part- glzed door, flanked to left by a projecting gabled wing with a canted hipped bay window with 3 plain casements, and to right by a single storey bay with a square gabled bay window with a foiled triple lancet in a pointed arched reveal. Above the door, a gabled cross eaves dormer with a cusped single lancet, flanked to left by a gable with a cusped double lancet casement in a segmental pointed reveal. North side, to street, has to right a double lancet. Rear has, to right, a gabled wing with a shouldered doorway and a mullioned casement. Above, a double lancet. To the left, a lean-to addition with a C20 casement. Above it, a cross eaves gabled dormer with a single lancet. This building was erected as a lodge to the north entrance to Edmondthorpe Hall.
Listing NGR: SK8593617574
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 189914
- 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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