The Brand, Brand Hill, Woodhouse Eaves (Grade II)
| Date Listed | Thu 15th March, 1984 |
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| Category | Statutory Listed Building |
| Address | The Brand Brand Hill Woodhouse Eaves LE12 8SS |
| Grade | Grade II |
| Grid Reference | SK5342413573 |
| LBS | 189203 |
| Volume, Map, Item | 286, 3, 147 |
| Parish | Woodhouse |
| Ward | Forest Bradgate |
| Conservation Area | Woodhouse Eaves |
| Description | House of 1875, by Alfred Waterhouse for Arthur Ellis. Minor addition of 1891 by M G Wigg. Granite and slate rubble stone with stone plinth, cornice and dressings. Stone shouldered coped gables with kneelers and most with finials. Swithland slate twin span roof with ridge tiles and various ridge, valley and end stacks, with lower part rubble stone and upper part ashlar. An irregular composition in Gothic style with two and 2« storeys, four gables, of stone mullioned sash windows, hereinafter specified as 2 light etc. Gabled porch centre right with Gothic arch and a 2 light to each side leads to doubled leaved door. 2 light above with small quatrefoil opening over. To left a large 3 light mullion and transom staircase window over a 1 and 2 light. In next left gable a 2 light with canted oriel bay over and 1 light in gable. Further left a door with 1 and 2 lights, half dormer and then dormer above left. On far left gable a 3 light both floors and arrowslit in attic. 1 light on end and here two gate piers lead to small walled yard where doors and further windows. To right of front porch a 1 light, 2 light and 3 light, with 2 light in gable. On right end a 1 light both floors and a further ground floor 1 light in projection with side projecting stack. Rear of garden front has main range of a gable either side a large 2 light half dormer over large C20 window with Swithland slate canopy. Gable to left has square wooden mullion and transom bay of 4 light with side lights extending upwards by Swithland slate roof to canted bay with Swithland slate roof. These bays added in 1891. Gable to right has stone mullion and transom canted bay with Swithland slate roof and 3 light over. A small quatrefoil opening in attic of both gables. On left end a ground floor 1 light in projection with side projecting stack. On right end a French window with 1 light half dormer above. To right the other range slightly set back with, from left to right, a door with 2 light and two 1 lights over, a large gable with 3 light, 2 light over and arrowslit in attic, then a 2 light with canopy over, a group of three 1 lights and group of two 1 lights with 1 light half dormer and C20 2 light over. Door and two 1 lights on right end. Inside are contemporary pine staircase, fireplaces, four panelled doors and simple cornices together with row of internal bells. In a bedroom a pair of massive X beams on stone corbels. |
The description above describes the salient features of the building as it was at the date of listing. It is given in order to aid identification; it is not intended to be either comprehensive or exclusive.
Statutory Listing covers all parts of the property and its curtilage, ie all internal and external elements whether described or not.
