Charnwood Borough Council - Leading in Leicestershire

Descriptions are given below for the following buildings in the settlement of Cotes. Some of these buildings are within the administration of Loughborough.
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
Cotes Bridge, Nottingham Road - Grade II
Hall Farmhouse, Stanford Lane - Grade II
Manor Farmhouse, Stanford Lane - Grade II
Remains of Old Hall, Stanford Lane - Grade II - Scheduled Ancient Monument - Deserted Medieval Village
Bridge 300 yards to West of Cotes Bridge, Nottingham Road (south side) - Grade II
Cotes Mill (formally listed as Lower Mill), Nottingham Road (south side) - Grade II

Cotes Bridge, Nottingham Road - Grade II
Bridge over River Soar, C18, incorporating fragments of medieval date, parapet rebuilt C20. Red brick and rubble stone, blue brick repairs. Downstream face: one pointed stone arch at east end. Six semi-circular brick arches. Pointed stone cutwaters. Upstream face: 7 semi-circular brick arches. Eastern 3 cutwaters rebuilt in blue brick, western 3 of stone repaired in blue brick. 1 pointed rubble stone arch to SE and the stone cutwaters are medieval, the 6 segmental brick arches are probably C19, and the parapet is a C20 rebuilding.
Hall Farmhouse, Stanford Lane - Grade II
Farmhouse with facade of mid C18, modified later, but concealing earlier core. T. Plan, 2 storeys. Brick with rubble plinth chamfered to main facade, pantiled roof. Main facade has central door in gable porch backing onto stack, renewed windows with cambered heads, and to right, a pent roofed projection for the staircase. The gabled wing has various brick stacks and has been extended further to NE in C19. Internally, it is clear that this wing forms the earliest part of the house (early C17) with substantial remains of timber framing visible in 1st floor partition walls. Collar beams with arch bracing and vertical studding. Wall plate visible in SE wall. Interior gable of main range also timbered. A ground floor room in the wing has a well-beamed ceiling and bressumer for inglenook, both with run-out chamfers, and there is a small room with close-spaced and roughly shaped timber beams. An upper room in the main range also contains a large ceiling beam with run-out chamfer. Adjoining the house to the rear is a pump with wood case and decorated leadwork to spout, inscribed W.H. 1777.
Manor Farmhouse, Stanford Lane - Grade II
Large farmhouse, C1800. 2 storeys, L plan. Brick, with Swithland slate roof, gable end stacks, dentilled eaves cornice. NW front of 3 bays with central door and cambered heads to renewed windows. Wing has an axial stack, cambered heads to upper windows, and 2 canted bay windows with slightly moulded cornices (late C19) to ground floor. Modern doorway in gable of main range.
Remains of Old Hall, Stanford Lane - Grade II - Scheduled Ancient Monument - Deserted Medieval Village
Boundary walls of the vanished Cotes Hall, largely C16, ruinous. Large fragments of wall forming a square enclosure c70 yards square. Various materials English bond brick work, limestone and granite rubble, with some ashlar work to internal face. Plinth and chamfering in parts, angled brickwork on gradient in part. Turned to form gateway in middle of NW face, and running down to river, suggesting possible former water gate. Further to NW an additional, smaller enclosure.
Cotes Hall had 26 hearths in hearth tax of 1666, but was destroyed by some time in the C18. Nichols noted in 1800 that “large fragments of the walls still remain ... the entire garden, fenced in with a good stone wall, has been for some time let to gardeners”. In 1877 Whites Directory noted traces of the ancient hall, old terraces, a boat house and a fine old barn.
Bridge 300 yards to West of Cotes Bridge, Nottingham Road (south side) - Grade II
Bridge, C18 (possibly earlier origin). Red brick, incorporating some rubble stone on north side. Three round arches, pointed cutwaters, 2-course raised brick band on both sides.
Cotes Mill (formally listed as Lower Mill), Nottingham Road (south side) - Grade II
Watermill, now public house, and house attached. Watermill: C16/C17 (possibly earlier origin), altered and enlarged C19. Original building of rubble stone with quoins, now painted white. North front has blocked 2-light chamfered window to ground floor, C20 first floor windows but with hoodmoulds. Enlarged in brick (now painted white), plain tile roof. North front has C20 weather boarded gable lucam. East front has raised brick band and three 3-light cambered headed windows. Various C19 slate roofed brick extensions to north and east. Massive C20 covered space to west, not of architectural interest. House, to south of mill: c. 1830 (possibly a recasing) brick (painted white) slate roof. Canted plan. Two storey, 2 window range. Three light windows with lozenge pattern glazing bars and margin lights. Brick dentil cornice, 6-panel door to left hand side with rectangular fanlight and bracketed hood above.