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Descriptions are given below for the following statutory listed buildings in Loughborough. There are additional lists of buildings in the settlements of Cotes, Hathern and Nanpantan.
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.

Entries are arranged alphabetically by street.

Church of St Mary and House Adjoining, Ashby Road (north side) - Grade II
Roman Catholic church and house adjoining, 1833-4, by William Flint of Leicester. Stucco. Original church forms chancel of present church, which was enlarged in the 1920s by a 5-bay nave to the south. Massive 4-column south portico flanked by aisle windows in lugged architraves. Ceramic panel of the Annunciation above central door. Original church has ceiling with coved sides rising from cornice and west gallery with iron railing enriched with palmettes. C20 fittings otherwise. House to west: 2 storey, double-fronted, 3 window range. Giant pilasters supporting entablature. Lugged architraves and bracketed cills. Pilastered doorcase, rectangular fanlight, 6-panelled door (2 panels now glazed). C20 casement windows.
The Grove, Ashby Road (north side) - Grade II
House, now student hostel. C1830, stucco (rusticated to ground floor), hipped slate roof. Two-storeys, 3 window range, 1-1-1, French windows to ground floor, C20 casements to first floor. Tented verandah across front on cast iron trellis supports. Central stone porch with bowed centre supported on 4 fluted columns; entablature. Deep eaves. Left hand return front has 2 large 2 storey canted stucco bay windows with slate roofs and French windows with segment headed fanlight with Gothic glazing bars between. Right hand return front plainer with one canted 2 storey bay window of smaller size.
Gate Piers to The Grove, Ashby Road (north side) - Grade II
Two gate piers. C1830, roughcast with stone caps and octagonal lanterns on wrought iron consoles. Listed for group value with The Grove (qv).
Field House, Ashby Road (north side) - Grade II
House, 1887 on plaque, red brick and terracotta, with plain tile roofs and moulded brick chimney stacks. “Queen Anne” style. Main block of 2 storeys and attic with subsidiary blocks to left hand side and rear. Main block 5 window range, with central doorway with decorative keystone and white painted bracketed hood over. Sash windows with glazing bars. Terracotta frieze with ongar and cornice above, between 1st and attic floors. White painted eaves cornice. French window to left of entrance (leading to conservatory, now lost). Left hand wing has 2 storey rectangular bay window and gabled dormer, and, to rear, white painted lantern with lead roof and weathervane in the form of a fix. Right hand return front has 2 storey rectangular projection, decorative plaques, ground floor oriel window and arched entrance with swan’s neck pediment and oval window above. The rear of this wing is canted. Rear has rendered and roughcast gables and some leaded windows.
Lodge to Garendon Park, Ashby Road (north side) - Grade II
Lodge, 1847 on plaque, by William Railton. Of Charnwood granite rubble with ashlar dressings and fishscale slate roof, with coped gables and brick end stacks. “Tudor Gothic” manner. 1½ storeys, gable end to street. Three light window with glazing bars to left and similar window in bracketed and gabled dormer with date plaque above. Gabled entrance with shield of arms in lower gabled wing to right hand side. Street end has rectangular ground floor bay window.
Garendon Park, Gateway and Railings to Hall, Ashby Road (north side) - Grade II
Gateway and length of railing to either side (approx 1 yd to east and approx 15 yds to west), mid C18. Stuccoed round arched gateway, rusticated, with Doric columns supporting triglyph frieze and pediment. Rear elevation has rusticated Doric pilasters. Wrought iron railings incorporate decorative panels, and carry scrolls at either side of the gateway. Originally one of a pair of gateways flanking Garendon Hall (demolished 1964).
Garendon Park, Entrance Archways to Hall, Ashby Road (north side) - Grade II
Entrance archway to Garendon Hall (demolished 1964). Mid C18, stuccoed. Segmental carriage archway between plain palisters with entablature and pediment over. Clock face in tympanum of pediment; domed cupola above. North face carries wrought iron lamp bracket.
Garendon Park, Wrought Iron Screens and Gates, Ashby Road (north side) - Grade II
Screens and gates, mid C18, ornamental wrought iron work.
Garendon Park, The Obelisk, Ashby Road (north side) - Grade II
Obelisk, of the 1730s by Ambrose Phillips of Garendon (d.1737). Of red brick rendered, carried on a thick iron plate on 4 ball feet, and standing on a stone pedestal with cornice and base moulding. Mark Airnard “Ambrose Phillipps of Garendon”, Architectural History, 1965.
Garendon Park, Stonebow Bridge, Ashby Road (north side) - Grade II
Bridge, perhaps medieval origin. Rubble stone of 3 arches, the central one pointed. Upstream side has pointed cutwaters. Downstream side has flat platforms stretching into the brook.
Garendon Park, The Triumphal Arch, Ashby Road (north side) - Grade I
Triumphal Arch, of the 1730s, by Ambrose Phillipps of Garendon (d.1737). Of ashlar, with a moulded round headed carriage arch, the soffit of which has octagonal coffering in stucco on brick. The east front has 4 Corinthian columns on tall pedestals supporting a rich entablature. The attic, crowned by a cornice, has a fine relief of the Metamorphosis of Actalon. The west side has 2 Corinthian columns on pedestals with a pediment over the entablature. Cornice crowning attic. Keystone to arch in form of a head. The interior of the arch has some tiny rooms. Based on the Arch of Titus in Rome, the Triumphal Arch at Garendon is a very early (perhaps the earliest) example of an English building inspired directly from an Ancient Roman source, archaeologically interpreted. Mark Aironard, “Ambrose Phillipps of Garendon”, Architectural History, 1965.
Garendon Park, The Temple of Venus, Ashby Road (north side) - Grade II*
Temple, of the 1730s, by Ambrose Phillipps of Garendon (d.1737). Of ashlar , with carved oak entablature and copper dome. Circular plan, loosely based on the Temple of Vesta at Tivoli. Raised on 4 steps, with a peristyle of Ionic columns. Entablature painted white, with the frieze of ox skulls and small bays with swags between. The roof member of the cornice has lions’ heads at intervals. The centre of the temple has a circular apartment with rusticated walls, classical doorcase and 2 fold fielded-panel door. The interior originally contained a statue of Venus, now lost, perhaps destroyed by Luddite rioters in 1811. Mark Aironard, “Ambrose Phillipps of Garendon”, Architectural History, 1965.
Garendon Park, Lodge & Archway N of Site House, Ashby Road (north side) - Grade II
Lodge and archway, 1830s, by William Railton (design exhibited at Royal Academy). Red brick with stone dressings and Swithland slate pyramidal roof to stair turret (replacing the earlier spiral roof). Single rooms of granite rubble to either side. “Tudor” style. Four centred carriage arch with oriel window over, incorporating shields of arms in panels. Crow stepped gables and angle buttresses, with finials. Octagonal stair turret to west.
Garendon Park, Barn, Ashby Road (north side) - Grade II
Barn, C19, red brick, with south wall of rubble stone, probably medieval. Slate roof. North side has buttresses with segmental headed recesses between. Originally used as Riding School.
Garendon Park, Dovecote, Ashby Road (north side) - Grade II
Dovecote, probably medieval origin. Lower part of rubble stone with plinth quoins and moulded string, upper of red brick, brick dentil cornice, Swithland slate roof, rudimentary wooden louvre. Square plan. Pediments on east and west sides. West side has low doorway framed by massive beams, perhaps the original entrance. Interior: nesting boxes with lips of stone and brick.
Garendon Park, Outbuildings, Ashby Road (north side) - Grade II
Outbuildings, probably medieval in origin. Two bays to west of rubble stone, bay to east rubble stone faced, brick lined. Brick eaves. Swithland slate roof. Three engineering brick carriage arches.
Garendon Park, Boundary Wall, Ashby Road (north side) - Grade II
Length of massive dry stone rubble walling, perhaps medieval.
Loughborough University, Summer House & Garden Wall, Ashby Road (south side) - Grade II
Summerhouse and part of walled garden to Burleigh Hall (demolished); C18 red brick walls with central recess entered through segmental rusticated stone arch with carved head keystone. Pediment incorporating coat-of-arms above (originally supporting crest and urns, now lost). NB: This building is too altered to qualify for a II* rating, which it had on the previous list.
Loughborough University, Gardeners Cottage, Ashby Road (south side) - Grade II
House; C16/C17, left hand parts timber framed with brick nogging on stone plinth, right hand part rubble stone. Concrete pantile roofs. Double L plan. External stone stack, heightened in brick at right hand end. Brick bread oven roofed in Swithland slates. Mixed fenestration. Dormer. Plank door.
Holywell Farmhouse, formally listed as Holywell Farm Hall, Ashby Road (south side) - Grade II
Farmhouse; C15/C16, first floor rebuilt in brick late C18 or early C19. Rubble stone ground floor with squared stone quoins and entrance arch. Swithland slate roof. Three room cross passage plan. Two storeys. Right hand bay rendered. Massive stone ridge stack, heightened into 4 separate brick stacks, between central and right hand bays. Four centred entrance arch between left hand and central bays, with plank door recessed behind. Corresponding arch in original rear external wall, now within C19 rear extension. C19 and C20 three and 4-light windows.
Outbuildings to Holywell Farm, Ashby Road (south side) - Grade II
1½ bays of medieval outbuildings, consisting of 2 cruck trusses with collar and tie beams, ridge beam, purlins and wind braces. Walls rebuilt in brick, corrugated iron roof.
The Griffin Inn, Ashby Square (south side) - Grade II
Public house, early/mid C19, brick, painted cream, with stucco dressings, slate roof, 4 brick ridge stacks. Two storeys, 4 window range. Sash windows, some with glazing bars, with incised stucco window heads. Round headed central doorway. Later C19 pub front to right hand side, incorporating twin 4 panel doors (with rectangular fan lights above) flanking C20 replacement window, beneath bracketed frieze.
54, Baxter Gate (east side) - Grade II
Auction rooms, now hospital offices; late C19, brick with terracotta and tiling, plain tile roofs with lead capping and finials. Ecledic “Arts and Crafts”. Two storeys and attic. Carriage arch to left. Projecting main block with irregular asymmetrical fenestration. Central recessed door beneath oval window and triangular pediment, flanked by elliptical shop windows. First floor and attic oriel windows, linked by balusters. Decorative tiling and tile hanging at attic level. Steep pyramidal roof. Octagonal turret to left with round headed cusped blind arcading and ribbed conical roof.
General Baptist Meeting House, Baxter Gate (west side) - Grade II
“General Baptist Meeting House MDCCCXXVIII” on plaque, red brick, 2 storey, 5 window range front. Round headed windows (reglazed with stained glass within mullion and transom) in round headed recesses. Massive pediment across entire facade. C20 ground floor porch addition. Interior has gallery on 3 sides, carried on iron columns. Wrought iron railings and gates with lanterns, in front.

Beacon Bingo Club, formerly Odeon Cinema, Baxter Gate - Grade II
Former cinema, converted to a bingo hall in circa 1970. built in 1936 to a design by Arthur J Price of the Harry Weedon architectural practice for Oscar Deutsch’s Odeon Cinema chain. Brick in two tones with a completely clad main elevation using coloured, glazed faience tiles. Modernist style.
EXTERIOR
The nearly symmetrical main elevation faces Baxter Gate and is entirely tiled with glazed, coloured faience, the tiles continuing around the curved corners to the start of the side elevations. The tiling to the ground floor is predominantly black but has 6 narrow horizontal bands in green. Above the tiles are white laid in a distinctive weave pattern, except for the top of the elevation which is finished with 3 alternating bands of yellow and green tiles finished with a course of black tiles forming a positive upper edge to the elevation. Unlike some examples elsewhere, historic photographs show that this green banding was not supplemented with neon lighting. Across the centre of the main elevation there is a row of five recessed double doors at the top of a wide flight of 4 steps, the doors separated by narrow pilasters. At the time of survey only the right hand pair of doors were in use, but original, the other 4 entrances being blocked by advertising boards. Above there is a simple canopy with curved ends. Historic photographs show that the edge of the canopy was originally pale coloured and carried signage, but this has been over-clad in black with red fixing strips above and below. Above the canopy there are 5 deep recesses divided by narrow, fluted pilasters that support a shallower canopy above. The central 3 recesses are filled with large windows that originally lit the balcony foyer. These windows are currently partly obscured by modern ventilation units. To the left of the main entrance with its canopy, there is a secondary entrance with its own flight of steps. The curved corners of the main elevation each have 3 tiers of recessed windows arranged as horizontal slits that are thought to light the principal staircases.
The secondary elevation (facing Lemyngton Street) is principally brick with a darker brick used for the ground floor than those used above; these darker bricks continue the line of the black tiles to the front of the building. Above, to the centre, there is a purpose built advertising hoarding. This is flanked by thin horizontal bands of darker bricks, and is protected by a shallow canopy. Rising vertically above the canopy there is a spine design in darker brickwork.
INTERIOR
The cinema auditorium remains undivided and retains its balcony, stage, and rectangular proscenium arch. It also retains its original coved ceiling lights and decorative grills that flank the stage. The entrance foyer is largely undivided and may retain original decorative details obscured by later linings.
HISTORY
The cinema was built for Oscar Deutsch’s Odeon Cinema chain and opened on 21st November 1936. It was designed by Arthur J Price of the Harry Weedon architectural practice, the practice that oversaw the designs of most Odeon cinemas in the mid to late 1930s. The auditorium had 1,029 seats in the stalls and 569 in the upper circle. In 1967 it was sold by Odeon to the Classic cinema chain which used the cinema for bingo until 1969 when it became the Vogue Social Club. It is believed that it was last used for showing films in 1974 but has remained in use for bingo and is now known as the Beacon Bingo Club.
SOURCES
Rosemary Clegg ed., 1985, “Odeon” (Mercia Cinema Society)
Allen Eyles, 2002, “Odeon Cinemas Volume 1” (Cinema Theatre Association, BFI Publishing)
REASON FOR DESIGNATION DECISION
- As a remarkably well preserved and accomplished example of the 1930s modernist cinema style employed by the Odeon cinema chain, at that time, style leaders in cinema design.
- As a rare, largely unaltered example of the work by the Harry Weedon architectural practice, the principal practice employed by Odeon.
- For the high quality of the architectural design such as the effective use of coloured faience tiling to the main elevation.

Moat House, Bramcote Road (west side) - Grade II
House; medieval origin, enlarged C17, altered C19. Stone, enlarged in brick, north front rendered. Gable ended Swithland slate roof, brick end stacks. Cross passage plan. North front: 4 window range, sash windows with glazing bars and keystones above. West front: stone built at northern end, diamond pane 2-light casement window to attic. South front: staircase projection, C19 porch. East front: stone plinth, 2 windows to each floor, 3-light casements to ground and 1st floor, one 2-light one blocked window at attic level. C18 staircase. North west ground floor room has 4 centred stone fireplace brought from Knightthorpe Hall at time of demolition.
Limehurst House, Bridge Street - Grade II
House. Early 19th century with mid 19th century and 20th century additions and alterations. Rendered brick with hipped and gabled slate roofs and various rendered ridge end stacks. Flat roofs to 20th century additions. Three storeys with single storey additons. L-plan originally, with central staircase to entrance front, now extended, three storey main range. Front is a three window range at first floor of triple 2/2:6/6:2/2 unhorned sashes with moulded architraves and central 6/6 sash with moulded hood on brackets. Similar 1/1:3/3:1/1 unhorned sashes with moulded architraves and central 3/3 sash on second floor. On ground floor are 20th century French windows either side a central wooden doorcase with open pediment and six panel door with fanlight. On right a two window range of sashes to the upper floors, those to the left blind, with a French window and glazed door and window on the ground floor. These last are set within basket-arched recesses. Behind is a mid 19th century addition with stone canted bay. Doors and various windows to left and rear including one first floor 6/6 sash.
INTERIOR. Stick baluster staircase from ground floor to attic. Six and four panel doors mostly survive on all floors. Original fireplaces in the three attic rooms, one mid 19th century fireplace on first floor, otherwise fireplaces are blocked or 20th century. Ceiling cornices in some rooms and in rear right ground floor room a coved ceiling with plasterwork rose and border. Cellar rooms under the front range have shallow vaulted ceilings and stone walls in part. Roof has roughly hewn tie beams and purlins.
Although this house has been extended and altered many features survive from the early and mid 19th century.
1 and 2, Burton Street (west side) - Grade II
Pair of cottages, mid C19. Stuccoed, painted cream, with moulded stuccoed end stacks, and curved end gables. Roof not visible. Two storeys, 4 window range. Projecting ground floor with horizontal rustication, cornice and urn at left hand end (missing from right hand end). Slight further projection in centre frames doorways with round arched heads. Doors have 2 slim lights (no 1 retains etched glass) and fanlights above. Tripartite ground floor sash windows (separated by engaged columns) with keystone above (that to No 2 is mutilated). 1st floor has bracketed cornice and blocking course. 1st floor outer windows are segment headed sashes with glazing bars. 1st floor inner windows are smaller and round headed, with close set glazing bars incorporating stained glass.
Loughborough Grammar School, Burton Walks (north side) - Grade II
Grammar School, 1852 by John Morris and Charles Hebson. Of red brick with burnt headers (diaper pattern on chequered basement), stone dressings and slate roof. Gothic revival, with “perpendicular” window tracery throughout. Central block with 2 cross wings (originally open to the roof, now floored). Central 3-stage battlemented tower, with octagonal stair turret at rear, flanked by a 4-light window to either side. Central doorway with carved spandrels, 1st floor oriel window, then 3-light window with hoodmould, niche for statue above. Five bay cross wings with coped gables carrying pinnacles and finials. Canted bay windows. Octagonal lead capped lanterns at junctions of main block and cross wings.
Loughborough Grammar School Boarding House, Burton Walks (north side) - Grade II
Grammar School boarding house, 1852 by John Morris and Charles Hebson. Of red brick with burnt headers and stone dressings. Slate roof. “Tudor Gothic” revival. Two storeys and attic, 3 window range, 1-1-1, coped gabled projections at sides, with rectangular projecting bay windows at ground floor level. Mullioned and transomed windows, mostly sashes, some with hoodmoulds. Three light windows in gables, and central gabled dormer breaking through eaves. Left hand end stack, and ridge stack between central and right hand bays, rising as 4 octagonal shafts. Arched entrance into porch in right hand return front, with canted oriel window above. Inscription carved on bracket above entrance.

Lodge and Gate Screen to Loughborough Grammar School - Grade II
Alternatively known as: Lodge & Gate Screen to Loughborough Grammar School, Leicester Road

Lodge and gate screen. 1852. By John Morris and Charles Hebson of Lambeth. Red brick with burnt header diapering and stone dressings. Coped gables and a parapeted slate roof. Tudor Gothic style. The 2-storey house is on an L plan with gables on the wing ends and a polygonal turret in the reentrant angle which emerges above the eaves level as an octagonal lantern turret with stone pyramidal roof. The windows are mainly 2- and 3-light stone mullion casements with hoodmoulds. There are small single-light windows to the turret with blocked openings to the lantern. At first floor facing the drive to the school is a carved panel of a quatrefoil framing the initials TB for Thomas Burton, the Founder. Beyond the gate screen is the entrance which has a central doorway in a 4-centred arch and a single-light window either side, all within the same hood mould. The lodge rear is similar and has a small single-storey wing including a C20 extension.
INTERIOR. The interior has mainly C20 fittings but retains the dog-leg staircase with angled balusters and newels with shaped heads. The screen has a 4-centred pedestrian archway either side of the drive, the walling ending in an octagonal gate pier with pyramidal cap echoing that of the turret. On the far side of the drive the arch ends in a small gabled building in similar style with window to front and door to rear.
HISTORY: Loughborough Grammar School was founded in 1495 following the bequest of Thomas Burton. The school was originally in the centre of the town but in 1852 the Trustees of the Burton Charity rebuilt it on the present large site known as the Burton Walks. The school and combined headmaster's and boarding house together with this lodge were designed by John Morris and Charles Hebson who in 1851 designed the Grammar School at Wimborne Minster (listed Grade ll) in a similar Tudor style. The school building and boarding house were listed grade II in the mid 1980's.
SUMMARY OF IMPORTANCE: This is a finely detailed and carefully designed lodge and gate screen of 1852. It is in the Tudor Gothic style which is up-to-date for institutional buildings of the period. There is a carefully combined rich combination of materials: red brick and burnt header diapering with stone dressings. Because of the fine design, including this use of varied materials, the lodge and gate screen is of definite quality and with the main buildings it forms a significant group of mid C19 school buildings, at an ancient grammar school, originally founded in 1495.
6, Burton Walks (south side) - Grade II
House, now Grammar School offices. C1910, in the manner of C F A Voysey. Roughcast, painted pink, plain tile roofs, roughcast right hand end stack. Two storeys and attic. Main block parallel to street with taller right hand gabled cross wing with cat slide roof enclosing garage. Entrance at left hand side of this gable, with flat semi-circular hood suspended from decorative iron supports. Plank door with long hinges, decorative nail heads, heart shaped letter box panel and finger plate. Irregular fenestration, mostly long horizontal rows of casements with leaded lights, also circular window above door and tall staircase window to left of entrance, with “Art Nouveau” stained glass. Raking buttresses. Deep wooden eaves. Staircase hall has 8 panelled doors with brass “Art Nouveau” door furniture. Simple stair with heart shaped cut outs in balusters.
Castledine Street - Garage and attached walls between Nos 61 and 71 - Grade II
Garage and attached walls. 1914. For Edmund Denison Taylor.

DESCRIPTION: Red brick, some moulded brick and tilework. Plain tile domed roof. In Arts and Crafts style and in the form of an elaborate garden pavilion. Rectangular plan with canted corners. Single storey. Front to Castledine Street has pair of part-glazed doors within a wide basket arch of fine splayed tilework. Above is a tilework raised band, then a frieze of inset circles of brick and a tilework band which continues round the whole building. The canted corners to left and right and to rear have a round window with tilework keystones. To the sides are tall oval windows with large tilework keystones which rise to the band and splayed aprons which go down to the building’s plinth. Above the frieze is a dentil cornice and ornamental leadwork gutter and downpipes. The large domed roof has a wrought iron weathervane at its apex. To either side of the gargae curving out to the street and continuing parallel to it for approximately 10m. is a brick boundary wall. This has sunk panels each with a terracotta ornament in the cnetre and a moulded brick frame with curved corners. The wall has a coped top.

HISTORY: The garage was built by the owner of 6 Burton Walks (q.v.) at the end of the garden of which the garage stands. E. D. Taylor who had his house designed in the Voysey style, built this garage for his Rolls Royce. He was a director of the successful Loughborough firm, Taylor’s Bell Foundry (q.v.), which cast Great Paul for St Paul’s in London and exported bells all over the world.

SUMMARY OF IMPORTANCE: This garage of 1914, in the Arts and Crafts style, is of very high quality and has fine moulded brickwork and tilework decoration and is comparatively rare for the date. It is in the style of a garden pavilion with a domed roof and has a grandeur suitable to its first occupant, the owner’s Rolls Royce.
National Westminster Bank, Cattle Market (east side) - Grade II
Bank, “FW 1886” on plaque, by Fothergill Watson. Red brick with decorative terracotta and blue brick, stone dressings and bands. Plain tile roofs, with 2 richly moulded brick ridge stacks. “Arts and Crafts Gothic” style. Two storeys and attic. Fenestration mostly plate glass sash windows. Canopied entrance at left carried on pairs of columns with richly moulded capitals, beneath square tower with pyramidal roof. Central banking hall, lit by three 2-light windows within round heads, with transoms and cusped oculi, articulated by gable above. Eight window range offices to right: 1st floor windows linked by arcading, parapet of miniature blind pointed arcading above. Two hipped dormers with deep eaves carried on decorative brackets. Banking hall: square panelled “Jacobethan” ceiling of wood and plaster carried on massive brackets. Upper part of interior of exposed brick, down to decorative terracotta stringcourse. Lit to rear by three 2-light windows with plain oculi. Twin brick arches in north wall with central polished grey granite column and richly moulded capital.
37 and 38, Church Gate (south side) - Grade II
House, now shop; C16 and later; timber frame, front stuccoed, end walls rebuilt in brick, coped gable ended Swithland slate roof. One brick ridge stack. Two storey 5 window range. 1st floor has three 9-pane sash windows alternating with 2 blind recesses. Ground floor has one 9-pane sash window with shutters on right hand side, otherwise a jumble of C20 “Georgian” shop fronts, all beneath pent roof. One storey C19 extension to left hand side has 3 segment headed shop windows with keystones and canted angle with round headed doorway. Interior reveals some exposed timber framing, a simply chamfered rectangular stone fireplace and a room with C17 and C18 panelling, all on the first floor.
39 and 40, Church Gate (south side) - Grade II
House, C16 and later timber frame, stuccoed, gable ends. Swithland slate roof, 2 brick ridge stacks. Cross passage plan, 2 storeys in early C19, fronted as two 2 window range double fronted houses. Sash windows, glazing bars and shutters to ground floor. Bracketed doorcases. No 39 has rectangular fanlight and 6 panel door. Door to No. 40 replaced by round headed window. Bracketed box gutter.
Ruins of All Saints Church, Dishley, Derby Road (north side) - Grade II Scheduled Ancient Monument
East, north and south walls of ruined aisle less church, C12/C13; rubble stone with ashlar dressings. Triple lancet east window. North wall: round headed doorway with semi circular hoodmould, plank door. South wall (from east to west) lancet, blocked round headed doorway, ogee-headed lancet, base of porch. Interior has remains of piscina, sedilia, aumbry. Slate grave slabs including those to the Bakewell family C20 slate slab commemorating Robert Bakewell on north wall. Scheduled ancient monument.
Dishley Grange, Dishley (north side) - Grade II
House; 1845 (CMP and 1845 on shields in gables) rebuilding of earlier house. Brick with stone dressings, slate roof. Two storey, 4 window range, 1-2-1 coped gabled projection left and right. Sash windows (tripartite to ground floor) with glazing bars. Four panel door, rectangular fanlight above, and hoodmould with head stops. Previous house was home of Robert Bakewell, pioneer agriculturalist.
Dovecote, Dishley Grange, Derby Road, Dishley (north side) - Grade II
Dovecote, late C18, square plan, stone plinth, red brick with raised band, brick dentil cornice, pyramidal slate roof, white painted lantern.
Milestone, West of Dishley Grange, Dishley (south side) - Grade II
Milestone, made by “Gamble”, early C19, cast iron painted white with lettering painted black. Triangular prism with label above. Faces inscribed “To London 111” and “Derby 15”, label inscribed “Loughbro 2”.

Former Framework Knitting Workshop, Duke Street - Grade II
Former framework knitting workshop. ca. 1875. Red brick with gault brick dressings and slate roof with end stacks. Two storeys. Sixteen window range in all at first floor of iron framed windows with glazing bars under brick segmental arches. Similar windows to ground floor, at present partly boarded. Central double loading doors on both floors. Further single door to centre right. Small windows and door on left end. Right end and rear blank. Interior reported as retaining original stairs.
This framework knitters workshop is a little-altered and unusual survival of the intermediate stage in the hosiery industry between home working and the complete factory. A number of knitters would work here for the workshop owner, some heating being provided by the end fireplaces.
The Elms, Elms Grove (south side) - Grade II
House, now part of University of Loughborough; early C19, ashlar. Two storeys , 3 window range. Projecting band between ground and 1st floors. Cornice and blocking course. Segmental headed recesses for windows on ground floor with cornice below tympana. Four columned Ionic porch with steps upon 3 sides, enclosing round headed entrance. 1st floor central window has flat pediment on console brackets above. Five windows to right hand return elevation (all modern or blocked) with flat pediment over central one. Rear elevation, 5 windows and pedimented doorcase. Stone cantilevered staircase in oval well beneath enriched cornice and lantern. Built for Thomas Warner, Hosiery Manufacturer.
12a, Fennel Street (north side) - Grade II
House; now offices. Early C19. Stucco, scored in imitation of ashlar, hipped Swithland slate roof, 2 ridge stacks. Two-storeys, double fronted, 3 window range. Eaves cornice, central full height shallow segmental headed recess. Eight pane sash windows. Central round headed doorway with archivolts and keystone, and radiating fanlight.
16, 17 and 17a, Fennel Street (north side) - Grade II
Terrace of houses, early C19, brick, rendered, plain tile roof, 4 brick ridge stacks. Three storeys, 5 window range. Central elliptical carriage arch. One door with rectangular fanlight above in centre of left hand part. Twin doors (right hand one probably later) with rectangular fanlights, in pilastered cases, in centre of right hand part. Flat projecting bands at all levels to 1st and 2nd floors. Original windows are 16-pane sashes to ground floor (where 3 survive) and 1st floor (where one survives) and 12-pane sashes to second floor (where 3 survive). Long (3 x 12-pane) windows to staircase projections in centre of each part to rear.
Emmanuel Church, Forest Road (north side) - Grade II
Church; 1835-7 by Thomas Rickman, with one bay chancel extension and vestry added to south 1909. Derbyshire sandstone with slate roofs. Six bay nave, aisles, chancel, western tower. “Decorated Gothic” style. Embattled parapet with pinnacles at either end. Nave clerestory. Tower has 3 light bell openings and traceried parapet with pinnacles. Interior has arcade carried on octagonal piers, western gallery carried on round cast iron columns and traceried brackets (galleries to north and south removed 1929). Square panelled ceilings with bosses. Monument to Richard Croslier by Thomas Brock, 1888, in form of lunette, showing corpse and mourners.
14, Forest Road (south side) - Grade II
House; early mid C19, of red brick (with some whitened headers) with Swithland slate roof and brick end stacks. Two storeys, 2 window range, double fronted. 16-pane sash windows with stone cills and moulded stucco window heads (possibly later). Slightly off centre door with blind window recess above. Doorcase with bracketed hood. Six-panel door with rectangular fanlight above. Rear wing, lit by cambered headed 3-light horizontally sliding sash windows, and later extension.
Taylors Bell Foundry, Freehold Street - Grade II
Bell foundry. 1859, later C19, 1898 and early C20. Red brick and Welsh slate roofs. Various ranges of 1 and 2 storeys and 2 towers. Main range facing Freehold Street is of later C19 and 2 storeys. 6-window range of a 20-pane window to left and five 4-pane sash windows to centre right and right. On ground floor are 2 doorways and a large double doorway to left, four 24-pane windows to centre, two 4-pane sashes to centre right, then a double doorway and further 4-pane sash. All openings have brick cambered heads. Moulded brick string course, moulded brick eaves and brick parapet. On right end are various sash windows with margin lights. To far left a 4-stage tower dated 1898. This has a 9-pane window with stone Gibbs surround, and, above, a round window with stone surround with keystones. The third stage has 4 rusticated stone pilasters on each face, a stone cornice, and a parapet with curved top, stone coping and ball finials. The left side of the tower facing Cobden Street is similar with datestone in parapet. Further range facing Cobden Street has tall brick stack, irregular fenestration and a double doorway. Rear range facing Peel Drive (Formerly Chapman Street) is dated 1859. A single storey, 7 window range of 5 iron framed 25-pane windows, and 2 similar 45-pane windows to left. Stone tablets inscribed J W T 1859. To the rear of the main range is an attached early C20 tower of 3 stages with plain tile hipped roof. The bottom stage has 2 sides open, being supported on an iron column and girders. Above these sides, on each face, are two 2-light leaded casements. The third stage is open, with timber framing between brick corner piers. Interior not inspected. History: the Taylor family, originally bell founders in St Neots and elsewhere, came to Loughborough in 1839. In 1858 J W Taylor bought this site and began new foundry buildings. An engraved letterhead of pre 1886 shows the buildings existing then being similar in appearance to those existing at present including that part on the east side of Cobden Street (qv) with three stacks. The business prospered and is reported to have been at one time the largest bell foundry in the world. Here were cast bells for St Paul’s Cathedral, London, including in 1881 ‘Great Paul’, the largest bell in the former British Empire and the largest properly rung bell in the world. Bells and carillons have been exported from this foundry to all parts of the former Empire, USA, and Holland. It is one of the two operational bell foundries remaining in the country. (The Taylor family, Leicester, 1933, passim; Mary Crocket, Bells in our lives, Newton Abbot, 1973, pp35-41; P L Taylor, Two Hundred Years of History, Loughborough, 1959, n.p. Tender for Rochdale Town Hall bells in 1886, in Loughborough Public Library pamphlets 750-800).
Carnegie Library, including 19 Packe Street - Grade II
Public library including linked former librarian's house. 1903-5. By Barrowcliff and Allcock of Loughborough. Red brick with terracotta dressings and slate roof with various tall stacks to house. Library in an exuberant Baroque style, to front, plainer to rear, and house in Vernacular Revival style. The main range is on the street, office to rear and house, which faces Packe St, is linked by a corridor. Main range is a high single storey and an unusual combination of a square which becomes an octagon surmounted by an octagonal pyramidal roof and large lantern with ogee lead covered dome and finial. Front is elaborate with a large central window with aedicule frontispiece surrounding it and ornamental turrets with open Agra-like lanterns at the corners above the triangular section formed by the change to the octagon. The whole has much terracotta decoration provided by the well-known and local firm of Hathernware. Rear ranges are plainer and have leaded-light, casement and sash windows. House has UPVC windows in original openings and a gabled front with a canted bay to left with leaded ogee pentice roof. Door to right under flat hood and windows over. Two gables face yard to left. In the mid 1960's a large library extension was built on to the main range. This involved the demolition of most of the original porch at the side, but it is remarkable that the interference to the rest of the building was kept to a minimum and the original walls and even a window survives covered over in present cupboards in the link.

INTERIOR: The main space survives unaltered and has Ionic half columns supporting the corner openings, an octagonal domed ceiling with plasterwork ribs, thermal windows with Art Nouveau style coloured glass and a huge central octagonal skylight with similar glass. The staircase hall survives with simple Art Nouveau iron balustrade to the staircase and coloured glass in the same style in the window above. The former reference library is the office for staff but remains unaltered and has a vaulted ceiling and also Art Nouveau detailed glass. The original lending library has been divided horizontally but retains the original ceiling. The house for the librarian, now storage, is linked by a corridor and the staircase, fireplaces, doors and other fittings survive.

HISTORY: The original library in Loughborough which opened in 1886 had become completely inadequate and this one was built 1903-5 following the offer of a substantial part of the funds by Andrew Carnegie, the famous philanthropist, who was at the time providing money for the building of many libraries in this country.

SUMMARY OF IMPORTANCE: This is an imaginatively designed and finely detailed public library, including linked former librarian's house, of 1903-5 by Barrowcliff and Allcock of Loughborough. It is in an exuberant Baroque style, with the house to rear in Vernacular Revival style. The main range has an octagonal pyramidal roof and the elaborate front has much terracotta decoration and ornamental turrets at the corners. Inside the main space survives unaltered and has an octagonal domed ceiling with plasterwork ribs, thermal windows with Art Nouveau style coloured glass and a huge central octagonal skylight with similar glass. Other areas retain good fittings and Art Nouveau style glass. The house for the librarian, now storage, is linked by a corridor and here the staircase, fireplaces, doors and other fittings survive. Although there was a large extension added in the mid 1960's, this impinges only minimally on the original building.

SOURCE.
The Municipal Journal, July 28, 1905, p.837-8.

2, Gregory Street (west side) - Grade II
Cottage, early C19, of brick, with plain tile roof and brick ridge stack. Two storeys, single fronted. Fielded 6 panel door in reeded doorcase to left. 24-pane 2-light horizontally sliding sash windows beneath shallow brick arches. A very rare intact survivor of a type of worker’s cottage once common in Loughborough.
Halfway House, Hazel Road (south end) - Grade II
House, C17 and later, timber framed on stone plinth with brick coped gables, rendered. C20 plain tile and pantile steep pitched roof, with one end and one ridge stack. Two storeys, 3 window range. C20 door and fenestration.
Park Grange, Hazel Road (south end) - Grade II
House; C18 with two C19 parallel gabled extensions to north (one incorporating present entrance). Brick with gable ended Swithland slate roof. C19 star plan brick end and ridge stacks. Two storeys. South front: 3 window range, raised brick bands above ground and 1st floors, blocked doorway. Mixed fenestration, including two 2-light horizontally sliding sash windows at 1st floor level.
Lodge to Aingarth, Leicester Road (east side) - Grade II
Lodge, originally to The Elms, now to Aingarth. Early C19, of ashlar, with shallow pitched slate roof. Later stuccoed addition to right hand side re-uses displaced stone window and doorcase. One storey. Cross plan. Sash windows with entablature above. Pediments to each face. One tripartite. Sash window facing road. Stone gate piers and railings in front.
Loughborough Cemetery Chapels, Leicester Road (west side) - Grade II
Pair of cemetery chapels, 1857, ashlar, slate roofs. Gothic Revival. Three bay buttressed chapel (and lower vestries to rear) with 2 light traceried windows, linked by 3 tall pointed carriage archways with gables above, and tower and spire over central one. Tower has buttresses and single light openings with ogee hoodmoulds, and spire has lucernes and is surmounted by a small cross.

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