THE OLD TANNERY INCLUDING REAR WING, TANNERY LOFT AND WAREHOUSE

THE OLD TANNERY INCLUDING REAR WING, TANNERY LOFT AND WAREHOUSE, 18, EASTGATE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1391988
Date first listed:: 25-Oct-2005
List Entry Name:: THE OLD TANNERY INCLUDING REAR WING, TANNERY LOFT AND WAREHOUSE
Statutory Address:: THE OLD TANNERY INCLUDING REAR WING, TANNERY LOFT AND WAREHOUSE, 18, EASTGATE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1391988
Date first listed:: 25-Oct-2005
List Entry Name:: THE OLD TANNERY INCLUDING REAR WING, TANNERY LOFT AND WAREHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: THE OLD TANNERY INCLUDING REAR WING, TANNERY LOFT AND WAREHOUSE, 18, EASTGATE

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:: THE OLD TANNERY INCLUDING REAR WING, TANNERY LOFT AND WAREHOUSE, 18, EASTGATE

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

County:: Leicestershire
District:: Harborough (District Authority)
Parish:: Hallaton
National Grid Reference:: SP 78981 96489

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Details

HALLATON

265/0/10005 EASTGATE 25-OCT-05 Hallaton 18 The Old Tannery including rear wing, t annery loft and warehouse

II House with attached outbuilding range including former tannery loft. House has C17 origins with early C19 alterations and outbuildings are early/mid C19. House is partly coursed squared rubblestone with red brick to first floor, rest of red brick but with weatherboarded first floor to tannery loft. Slate roofs. End stacks to house and ridge and end stacks to outbuilding wing. All of 2 storeys. U plan with house facing lane then a long wing projecting to rear from the right hand end of the house again along the lane side. The loft and further warehouse outbuilding extend out from the wing to form the U plan. House has a 2-window front of unhorned sash windows, 3/6 over 6/6, and a central door. The right hand gable end has a small window and shows the original cottage stone gable end and where the first floor has been raised in the early C19. The left gable end is rendered and whitewashed and has a 2-light casement. The rear of the house has an 8/8 sash over a part-glazed fdoor and a multi-paned window. The wing has similar multi-paned windows on both floors and a stable type door. The loft is open on the ground floor and the first floor front gable is now entirely C20 glazing, installed for its present use as a sculptor's studio. The 2-storey warehouse, also gable facing, is to the left of this and has a 2-light casement over garage doors. The wing has various windows facing the lane and the rear facing an adjoining garden is blank but for the 3 louvred openings of the loft. These have the wide plank shuttering which are now boarded behind but which were the means of ventilation for the tannery loft. INTERIOR. The house has boxed bridging beams to the ground floor and the sitting room a fireplace surround with overmantel which is a simplified miniature version of those at Hallation Hall nearby (q.v.). An early C19 fireplace and cupboards in the other ground floor room. Straight-flight stairs. 4-panel doors. The outbuilding range has a very unusual workshop with fireplace. The ceiling is of cast-iron beams supporting a floor of ceramic pierced bricks like those used in maltings. This ceiling is the floor for the room above and it is likekly that this area was used for part of the tanning process possibly for curing, fuming or drying. The adjoining large tannery loft has, in addition to the louvred openings visible from the outside, the vertical operating posts and brackets still remaining on the inside.

This is a very rare and unusual survival of a village-scale tannery. The survival of the whole complex is very significant. The property is said to have been described in early C20 deeds as a fellmongers. White Directory of 1846 lists 2 fellmongers with the same surname (Almond) in Hallation but gives no address. A fellmonger prepared hides or fleeces and this complex appears to retain 2 preparing areas as well as the warehouse and fellmonger's house. Two steeps survive sunk in the garden.

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 493020
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.