Charnwood Borough Council - Leading in Leicestershire

Descriptions are given below for the following buildings in Beeby. In general the buildings are in the parish of Beeby. You may need to check adjoining parishes or settlements.
Please note that the records describe the salient features of each property in order to aid identification: the records are not intended to be either comprehensive or exclusive.
Listing covers all parts of the property and its curtilage, ie all internal and external elements whether described or not.

Statutory Listed Buildings
Little Beeby Farmhouse (Lodge Farm), Hungarton Lane - Grade II
Home Farmhouse, Main Street (east side) - Grade II
Church of All Saints, Main Street (east side) - Grade II*
The Courtyard, Main Street (east side) - Grade II
Well Head, Pump and Railing, Main Street (north east side) - Grade II
White House Farmhouse, Main Street (west side) - Grade II
The Manor House, Main Street (west side) - Grade II
Locally Listed Buildings
Spring Grange, Barkby Road - Locally Listed
Beeby Spring Grange, Croxton Road - Locally Listed

Little Beeby Farmhouse (Lodge Farm), Hungarton Lane - Grade II
House, late C16 or early C17 in origin. Timber framed with brick infill, and thatched roof. 4 bays of timber frame to left on cobble plinth, a box frame with large square panels 2 panels high with continuous vertical posts and some arch bracing. The brickwork is laid herringbone in the angles between posts and brace. The right hand bay has no plinth or timbering visible except a single vertical corner post, so appears to be either a separate build or a rebuild. Doorway is in 2nd bay from right, renewed door in new porch. The window above it, and those in the left hand bay, are renewed casements. In the right hand bay a renewed casement cuts across the cambered head of a former single light. One 3 light dormer window to right hand bay, 2 other dormers to left. Axial stack behind the entry. Woodcased pump against wall right of doorway.
Home Farmhouse, Main Street (east side) - Grade II
House, early C19. Flemish bond brickwork with slightly blue headers. Low pitched Swithland slate roof. 2 storeys, 4 bays, though left hand bay contains only blind openings on each floor. Doorway is central in the other 3 bays and has an overlight. Windows are 16 light sashes with horns, and that over the door is narrower and of 12 lights only. All openings have slightly cambered gauged brick heads. Wood eaves cornice, but dentilled on north wing. Brick gable end stacks.
Church of All Saints, Main Street (east side) - Grade II*
Parish church, largely early C14, with some restoration, including the rebuilding of the chancel in 1819. Coursed ironstone rubble throughout, with white ashlar dressings. Chancel is of brick. West tower nave with clerestory and 2 aisles, chancel. Tower of 3 stages with slender angle buttresses. West door and 2 light window over it. 3 light double tiered traceried lights to bell chamber. Clock on west face. Quatrefoil frieze below embattled parapet, which contains gargoyles. Stumpy remains of spire. South aisle is of 2 distinct builds: coursed rubble to west, ashlar work to east on granite plinth. South doorway is a worn roll moulded arch on slender shafts, one renewed. The door itself is a fine piece of timberwork, with slender strapwork pattern of Y-tracery. C19 south porch of granite and openwork timber. One wide and simply traceried window and a round arched foiled light. Ashlar parapet. Clerestory has paired foiled lights and ashlar parapet, with gargoyles. Brick chancel of 1819 with red sandstone east window and rather heavy tracery. Date stone in apex of east gable. Buttressed north aisle with two wide 3 light decorated windows and a small doorway with single chamfered arch with hoodmould. Above it is a very worn carved head. North door is of similar quality and style to south. Inside, the nave is of 3 bays, but as the tower is arcaded on 3 sides, the impression is of a 4th western bay or narthex. Arches below tower are double chamfered with clustered shafts, and ogee arched doorway to tower staircase. Nave arcade has octagonal columns, double chamfered arches with large corbels, Victorian restorations: a serpent, a skull, the crucifixion and various saints etc. Nave roof is perhaps C15: cambered trusses with large central foliate bosses. Chancel arch looks earlier than the arcade, perhaps late C13 - it is steeply pointed and double chamfered on half octagonal piers. There is a door to former rood loft to north. The Chancel is raised up 3 steps, its screen is largely medieval, (C14) though capped by Victorian cross, and has central ogee archway and cusped tracery panels either side of it. Fragments of a similar screen are incorporated in the south aisle screen.
Stone and marble heavy high Victorian pulpit, c1860. Royal arms over tower arch. Partly obliterated incised slab beneath tower. Font is a diminutive basin on 4 round shafts with nail head decoration on bases and in between them. The basin is a slightly curved square, with a floral motif filling each panel. Perhaps C13. Various late C18 box pews and a gothic commandments board in the south aisle.
The Courtyard, Main Street (east side) - Grade II
House, partly late C18, extended twice in C19. Brick, with hipped Swithland slate roofs. Each part is roofed separately. 2 storeys, and 3 principal bays. The central part is apparently the earliest, and on the east if forms a projecting wing, containing on the East and North a 12 light sash window to each floor with cambered gauged brick heads. Moulded brick eaves cornice. Left of it, 2 bays added c1860, with inner door in reeded architrave, and outer 12 light sash window with cambered head.
Garden front presents a range of 3 hipped gables. The two northern most have triple light sash French windows to ground floor, and 12 light sashes above. In the south bay, which is later, are 2 tall sash windows lighting a staircase within. The south front has 3 storeys, with various cambered headed casement windows and a central door. One late C19 or early C20 dormer in roof. Gable and axial stacks.
Well Head, Pump and Railing, Main Street (north east side) - Grade II
Well head, dated 1855, and adjacent pump. Well head is of rusticated rubble, a stepped pyramidal shape in 3 tiers, but flat topped. Opening with iron cover in front, and date stone. Rhymed inscription on side. Pump is cast iron, a fluted shaft with concave cap. Surrounding both, a low cast iron rail runs between stone bollards.
White House Farmhouse, Main Street (west side) - Grade II
House, dated 1722, but with considerably earlier core. Brick, painted white with remnants of former timber frame. Swithland slate roof. 2 storeys, hall and 2 cross wings in plan. Central range has traces of blocked doorway in left hand angle, 1 triple light sash window with gauged brick head, a block window, and doorway in right hand angle on to inner cross passage. Three renewed upper 2 light casement windows. Left hand wing has a triple light sash window with gauged brick head to ground floor, new wood mullioned and transomed window above, and date stone in the gable apex with the initials H.K. In its side elevation, is a stone plinth, one massive full height timber post and a wall plate. Horizontal sliding sash window. Right hand wing has a triple light sash window to each floor, and a massive projecting stack on its inner face.
Inside, a heavily beamed room in the left hand wing, moulded beams in central range, one timber post resting on pad stone in inner wall of left hand wing, and a fine staircase with turned balusters, possible late C17.
Large red brick Victorian wing to rear.
The Manor House, Main Street (west side) - Grade II
House, probably largely late C18. Brick, with Swithland slate roof. 2 storeys, 4 bays with left hand bay projecting beneath the coped gable. It contains a 12 light sash window to each floor. Main range has central doorway in fine lugged architrave, and well wrought scroll work beneath a small canopy or open pediment. This is not in situ and is c1740. Left of it is a full height canted bay window with paired 15 light sashes with cambered heads. To the right a 12 light sash window to each floor. One 16 light sash over the doorway. String course at ground floor level. Wooden eaves cornice. Axial brick stacks. Behind the left hand gable, a wing contains a tall central round arched window with margin lights, lighting stairs.
Spring Grange, Barkby Road - Locally Listed
Farmhouse. Probably early C19. Plain Tudor/Gothic Revival styling. Red and yellow patterned brick. Pitched Swithland slate roof with deep eaves. 2 tall gable stacks. 2 storeys. ‘T’ shaped on plan although rear extension largely concealed from public view. All openings to main elevation surmounted by terra cotta hood moulds and with painted stone cills. Centre door with 2 light glazed fanlight. Large 8-paned windows incorporating vertical sliding sash centre section to either side and repeated on 1st floor. 6-paned centre window on first floor repeats door width.
Adjacent red brick barns probably of similar date but pitched roofs covered with modern concrete profiled tiles.
Beeby Spring Grange, Croxton Road - Locally Listed
Three storey Georgian Farmhouse. Mellow red brick. Swithland slate pitched roof. Squat off centre ridge stack. Centre entrance flanked by 2 vertical sliding sash windows on GF. 3 windows on each of 1st and 2nd floors. 12 pane lights to GF. Smaller 16 pane lights to 1st floor with reduced width 12 pane centre window. 8 pane lights to 2nd floor with reduced width 6 pane centre window. Gauged brick flat arches to all openings. Later porch conceals original entrance door.