Charnwood Borough Council - Leading in Leicestershire

Descriptions are given below for the following buildings in Ratcliffe on the Wreake. In general the buildings are in the parish of Ratcliffe on the Wreake. 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
27 (Ratcliffe Hall), Broome Lane (north side) - Grade II
Stable Block at 27 (Ratcliffe Hall), Broome Lane (north side) - Grade II
61 (Priory Farmhouse), Broome Lane (north side) - Grade II
301 (Wreake House Farmhouse), Fosseway (west side) - Grade II
20 Brier Cottage and 22 The Post Office, Main Street (east side) - Grade II
Nos. 28 and 30, Church Lane - Grade II
Church of St Botolph, Main Street (east side) - Grade II*
Matthews Headstone, Churchyard of St Botolph, Main Street (east side) - Grade II
War Memorial and Retaining Wall of Churchyard of St Botolph, Main Street (east side) - Grade II
19 and 21, Main Street (west side) - Grade II
41 (Old Rectory Farmhouse), Main Street (west side) - Grade II
K6 Telephone Kiosk, Main Street - Grade II
Locally Listed Buildings
25, Lodge to Ratcliffe Hall, Broome Lane - Locally Listed

27 (Ratcliffe Hall), Broome Lane (north side) - Grade II
Country House, early C19, extended early C20. Red brick and Swithland slate hipped roof with brick and stone ridge stacks. Painted moulded eaves cornice. Wings project forward on either end. Similar painted cornices to pediments. Two storeys of five windows with gauged brick lintels. On each wing a tripartite 2/2:6/6:2/2 sash to both floors, except lower left blank. Recessed central section is spanned by one storey Doric columned porch with entablature and balustrade. Three steps up. Within a 6/6 sash either side 2 leaved 6 panelled door with elaborate fanlight. On first floor a 4/4 sash either side French window with top lights. To right a one storey parapetted wing with tripartite 3/3:9/9:3/3 sash, French window and 12/12 sash. On left end the two storey early C20 extension is similar style with two storey canted bay and mostly 6/6 sashes on return front. The rear garden front is similar with two 2 storey canted bay, that to left projecting further forward. Mostly 6/6 sashes.
Stable Block at 27 (Ratcliffe Hall), Broome Lane (north side) - Grade II
Stable block, dated 1817. Red brick and Swithland slate roof. 3 storey, central range with pyramid roof and 1 storey wings on either end with roof hipped at outer ends. Wide bracketed eaves. Right end facing, front to left. Central range has three recessed blank arches with rounded heads. Centre arch, wide, with doorway, other with 2 light sash windows. Stone bands. 1st floor has three panels, the central with clock face, the others with plaques bearing the arms of the Earls Ferrers. 2nd floor has three blank openings on each side. At apex of roof the base of small domed octagonal cupola (now gone, 1983). The wings have three similar blank arches with segmental heads. On right end, extending right, a one storey extension, double gates and further one storey building. Yard within.
61 (Priory Farmhouse), Broome Lane (north side) - Grade II
House, dated 1707 and early C19. Red brick with granite rubble stone plinth and pantile front roof, Swithland slate rear roof, with brick ridge and end stacks. Front faces away from lane. Three storeys of three windows : two 3 light casements and a tripartite 2/2:6/6:2/2 sash. On 2nd floor three 1 lights. Doorcase centre left with 6 panelled door and 2 light overlight. Section to right possibly of the later date, has on right end two storeys of two 2 light blank windows in Gothic style with Y tracery in cut brickwork. Dated in brickwork on left end gable.
301 (Wreake House Farmhouse), Fosseway (west side) - Grade II
House, early C19. Red brick and Swithland slate roof with brick end stacks. Three storeys of three 2/2 sash windows. On 2nd floor sashes are 4/4:3/3:4/4. On ground floor a 2/2 sash either side a central glazed door with overlight. Slightly cambered lintels to ground and first floors. Two storey wing to rear.
20 Brier Cottage and 22 The Post Office, Main Street (east side) - Grade II
Two cottages, C18 raised ½ storey C19. Red brick with granite rubble stone plinth in part, and Welsh slate roof with brick ridge, left end and front projecting stacks. Two storeys of three 2 light horizontal sliding sash windows and 1 light where front wall steps back. On ground floor, from left, similar 2 light with cambered lintel, small 3 light canted oriel bay, 1 light and door in lean-to where wall steps back , and 2 light horizontal sliding sash. Porch on left end. Beams and inglenook inside.
Nos. 28 and 30, Church Lane - Grade II
Two cottages, now a single house, c1600, with C19 alterations, restored and converted c1990. No. 28. Timber framing with red brick nogging, granite rubble stone plinth and Swithland slate front, Swithland and Welsh slate rear, roof with right end projecting stack. Two storeys of a 1 light casement and 3/3 sash over door and 1 light. Two bays of timber framing, wall posts and brace remain to front, with closely set studs on right end. Inside are two ceiling beams with moulded chamfers and tie beam trusses with diagonal braces and clasped principal rafters. No. 30 linked by single storey. Flat roofed addition not of special interest.
Church of St Botolph, Main Street (east side) - Grade II*
Church. C14, spire rebuilt 1812 and church restored 1876. Granite rubble stone with stone dressings, ashlar spire, and Swithland slate roofs. Stone coped gables. W tower, nave, chancel and S porch. W tower of two stages with short diagonal buttresses, W window with C19 stained glass, N door, clock face to N, three 2 light bell openings, gargoyles, battlements and tall crocketted needle spire with two tiers of lucarnes. Nave has stepped buttresses. Inside, triple chamfered nave arch on polygonal responds, four bay N arcade on octagonal piers, blocked when N aisle demolished c1800. Three N windows, two with Y tracery and one with intersected tracery. N door. Three S windows with Geometric tracery. C19 four bay roof with curved braces and wall pieces on stone corbels. Double chamfered chancel arch on polygonal responds. Early C14 chancel with two N windows with Geometric tracery, E window with recticulated tracery and stained glass of 1878 and three S windows with Geometric or curvilinear tracery. The middle of these has fragments of medieval glass including grisaille quarries. N door. N tomb recess with double chamfered arch and effigy of priest, c1300, the head under a crocketed gable. Piscina and triple sedilia. C19 three bay roof similar to nave. C12/C13 round font on probably C19 octagonal base. S porch rebuilt 1967. Kelly’s Leicestershire, Rutland, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire 1881, and Pevsner.
Matthews Headstone, Churchyard of St Botolph, Main Street (east side) - Grade II
Headstone, dated 1839. By Woolerton. Slate. Headstone with incised border in Gothic style especially remarkable for its inscription. ‘In Memory of Samual Matthews, Labourer, who had both his legs broke, and one of his ankles dislocated by falling off a load of beans, on Mr King’s farm, at Ratcliffe on the Wreake; and died in Leicester Infirmary, October the 13th, 1839: Aged 60 years.’ This stone was erected as a mark of respect by his master Mr Thomas Freeman, to whom he was about 9 years a faithful and affectionate servant. “An honest man’s the noblest work of God”’. Stands close to S porch of Church of St. Botolph (q.v.).
War Memorial and Retaining Wall of Churchyard of St Botolph, Main Street (east side) - Grade II
War memorial and retaining wall, c1920 and C18/C19. Slate memorial plaque and granite rubble stone retaining wall. The plaque is inscribed with names of fallen in First World War and is set into the retaining wall c1½m high which surrounds two sides of Churchyard of St Botolph. Included for group value.
19 and 21, Main Street (west side) - Grade II
Two cottages. Red brick with dentilled eaves and Welsh slate roof with brick ridge and end stacks. Two storeys of three 3 light horizontal sliding sash windows. Two similar on ground floor with 2/2 sash to right. Doors between, that to left part glazed, and that to right 4 panelled.
41 (Old Rectory Farmhouse), Main Street (west side) - Grade II
House, early C18. Red brick with granite rubble stone plinth, wooden eaves cornice and Welsh slate roof with brick rear and wing end stacks. Coped shouldered gables. 2½ storeys of five 2 light wooden mullion and transom windows. Central 6 panelled door with 2 light overlight. Sun fire mark over central first floor window. On left end a ground floor 1 light and attic 2 light. Two storey wing projects to rear from left end. Here two first floor 2 light wooden mullion and transom windows. On ground floor, door with overlight, 3 light to left and 2 light to right. Extending forwards from left corner of house a granite rubble stone garden wall c1½m high which turns along in front of house. Formerly the Rectory.
K6 Telephone Kiosk, Main Street - Grade II
Telephone kiosk. Type K6. Designed 1935 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. Made by various contractors. Cast iron. Square kiosk with domed roof. Unperforated crowns to top panels and margin glazing to windows and door.
25, Lodge to Ratcliffe Hall, Broome Lane - Locally Listed
Lodge. Mid C19, possibly earlier. Red brick Hipped slate roof with angled gable containing rectangular bay window positioned to supervise drive entrance. Deep eaves carried on timber bearers. Half hipped roof to porch. Single storey. ‘T’ shaped plan. 2 tall stacks with corbelled heads. Generally, casement windows with small paned fixed top lights.