Quaker Cottage
QUAKER COTTAGE, 121, LEICESTER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391322
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Quaker Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- QUAKER COTTAGE, 121, LEICESTER ROAD
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391322
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Quaker Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- QUAKER COTTAGE, 121, LEICESTER 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:
- QUAKER COTTAGE, 121, LEICESTER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Harborough (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Broughton Astley
- National Grid Reference:
- SP5196693836
Details
1158/0/10001
BROUGHTON ASTLEY
LEICESTER ROAD
Sutton in the Elms
121 Quaker Cottage
GV
II
Cottage. Mid C17. Whitewashed timber-frame with C20 tile roof and brick ridge and right end stacks. Probably 3-unit lobby-entry plan. Single storey and attic. 4-window range of a 3-light mullion and transom window to either end, with a small casement either side the centre left plank door in front of the ridge stack. Small attic casement to each gable end.
INTERIOR not inspected.
HISTORY. In 1681 this cottage was acquired by the Society of Friends specifically as a meeting-house and was one of the first in the county to be so bought. The acquisition followed the imprisonment of one Edward Earby and the subsequent loss of his home as a venue for Quaker meetings. The cottage and land remained in use as a meeting-house and burial ground until its sale to a private owner in 1907. Although there have been alterations the main structure of the cottage remains sufficiently intact. In addition the specific use for which it was bought in 1681 and its subsequent use as such for more than 200 years is of special historic interest and the cottage also forms a group with Stone House (q.v.) opposite.
Evans, R.H., Journal of the Leicestershire Archaeological society, MXXXVIII, 1961-2.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 494115
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Evans, R H, Journal of the Leicestershire Archaeological society, MXXXVIII in Leicestershire Archaeological society, (1961-2)
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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