WAR MEMORIAL NORTH OF POLEBROOK HOUSE AT NGR 484058

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1385703
Date first listed:: 26-Nov-1996
List Entry Name:: WAR MEMORIAL NORTH OF POLEBROOK HOUSE AT NGR 484058
Statutory Address:: WAR MEMORIAL NORTH OF POLEBROOK HOUSE AT NGR 484058

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1385703
Date first listed:: 26-Nov-1996
List Entry Name:: WAR MEMORIAL NORTH OF POLEBROOK HOUSE AT NGR 484058
Statutory Address 1:: WAR MEMORIAL NORTH OF POLEBROOK HOUSE AT NGR 484058

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: WAR MEMORIAL NORTH OF POLEBROOK HOUSE AT NGR 484058

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

County:: Leicestershire
District:: Hinckley and Bosworth (District Authority)
Parish:: Desford
National Grid Reference:: SK4836405722

Details

SK 40 SE DESFORD BOTCHESTON

1294/3/10003 War Memorial north of Polebrook House at NGR 484058

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War memorial. c1920. Stone. Tall and narrow rough hewn piece of stone with a smooth carved surface facing down the avenue of trees. This face inscribed:-

avenue of trees is planted to the memory of 36 old boys of this school who fell in the Great War 1914-1919

and below follows a list of the names of those who are commemorated here.

Listing NGR: SK4840005800

This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 10 August 2017.

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Legacy System number:: 471109
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Websites
War Memorials Online, accessed 10 August 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/250683
War Memorials Register, accessed 20 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/37510

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.