STABLEBLOCK AT ILLSTON GRANGE

STABLEBLOCK AT ILLSTON GRANGE, BURTON OVERY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1391955
Date first listed:: 10-May-2007
List Entry Name:: STABLEBLOCK AT ILLSTON GRANGE
Statutory Address:: STABLEBLOCK AT ILLSTON GRANGE, BURTON OVERY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1391955
Date first listed:: 10-May-2007
List Entry Name:: STABLEBLOCK AT ILLSTON GRANGE
Statutory Address 1:: STABLEBLOCK AT ILLSTON GRANGE, BURTON OVERY ROAD

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:: STABLEBLOCK AT ILLSTON GRANGE, BURTON OVERY ROAD

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

County:: Leicestershire
District:: Harborough (District Authority)
Parish:: Illston on the Hill
National Grid Reference:: SP 69571 98754

Details

ILLSTON ON THE HILL

1050/0/10003 BURTON OVERY ROAD 10-MAY-07 STABLEBLOCK AT ILLSTON GRANGE

II Stableblock including cottage to now demolished large hunting box. Built c.1860 for the Baillie family.

EXTERIOR: Red brick with stone dressings. Swithland slate roofs, pantile to inner slopes, with coped gables. Triple-gabled rectangular plan of stables with lofts over either side a long 2-storey narrow covered court. High Victorian style. 2 storeys with small part single storey and tower rising 2 stages above in centre of the front which once faced the house but now faces gardens. Entrance front in narrower end of long rectangle has triple gables facing with round-arched stone doorway in centre with massive double panelled doors with ornamental hinges. Above is a circular window with cross mullions and in each of the side gables a 2-light mullioned window. To left at ground level is an arched kennel opening. The front facing the gardens is a 11-window range of single- and 2-light windows, mostly multipaned casements. To far end is a door with a tall window over, and a sash type window with a C20 window over. Above is a side stack. In the centre of this front is the tower with a pair arrow slits and, above, a gable on each side with a clock face to the front and louvred mullioned circular windows to the sides. In the rear gable is an unusual tall opening with brick louvres, possibly a former dovecote. The left side of the stableblock is 2-storey to right with a door and window over, 6 other mainly 2-light windows, another kennel opening to far right and 2 loft openings over. Gable end stack on left end. The single-storey part to left has 4 2-light windows and the roof is hipped to the left end over a C20 window which forms part of the cottage. This has windows in former arches in the 2 gables to left and the first floor has a circular mullioned window in the centre and a 2-light to left.

INTERIOR: The central narrow 2-storey covered court is very impressive and has a 10-bay open arched-braced roof, the braces springing from stone corbels. There are 2 tiers of purlins and the space above the collars of each truss is filled by a panel with 3 open roundels. From this court lead the stables which have heavy panelled and battened stable doors, tarred brick sides, corner troughs, setted floors and cast-iron window grilles between stables. Tack room has blocked fireplace, cupboard over and hooks for equipment. A large stable (converted to cowshed) has the elements of framing for stalls surviving and was perhaps used for mares in foal. A stair leads to the hay and other lofts between which at one end below the central window there is an open bridge linking the two sides of the blocks. This has a decorative panelled and openwork balustrade and could no doubt also be used for watching the horses below. Here there is also most of a hoist mechanism surviving. The lofts have king-post truss roofs.

HISTORY: Illston Grange was built c.1860 for the Baillie family also of Cally House, Gatehouse of Fleet. It was a large High Victorian style house and had this stableblock to one side. The house was demolished in 1927.

SUMMARY OF IMPORTANCE: This is a fine example of a hunting box stableblock, the area being of great importance for the Leicestershire foxhunting tradition. Built c.1860 in High Victorian style of red brick with stone dressings and Swithland slate roofs, it is on a triple-gabled rectangular plan of stables with lofts over either side a long 2-storey narrow covered court which has a 10-bay open arched-braced roof. From this court lead the stables which have heavy panelled and battened stable doors, tarred brick sides, corner troughs, setted floors and cast-iron window grilles between the individual stables.

The design is unusual in having the splendid covered court leading to the stables. This court may not only been a place to prepare the horses for hunting outside their individual stables, under cover, and for huntsmen to mount and dismount, but it may also have acted as a place for gentle exercise, or schooling, as it is long enough and just wide enough for a tight turn.

SOURCES: Giles Worsley, The British Stable, 2004, p.248 and passim. V.C.H., Leicestershire, Vol.4. Information from the owner.

Listing NGR: SP6957198754

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Legacy System number:: 496227
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Worsley, G, The British Stable: An Architectural and Social History, (2004), 248
'Leicestershire' in Leicestershire, , Vol. 4, ()

Legal

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