Loughborough Shelthorpe Conservation Area

Loughborough Shelthorpe Conservation Area was designated in October 1975.

The full text of the Conservation Area Appraisal was adopted by Cabinet in December 2006.

Shelthorpe is a residential estate on the south side of Loughborough 1 mile from the town centre. The estate is based on a single design started by Loughborough Corporation in 1926 on principles influenced by the Garden City movement and Arts & Crafts housing design. It was designed by Barry Parker.

It has altered little since its building. Most of the original windows have been replaced and the growth of car ownership has created many problems, such as the removal of boundary privet hedges and the need to find parking places. Originally all the land was owned by the Borough Council but more than half the houses have been transferred to the private ownership of the occupiers.

The estate was developed on open fields attached to Shelthorpe Farm on the edge of the flat plain of the Soar valley. The two principal roads, Shelthorpe Road and Woodthorpe Road, are wide streets with grass verges, joined by a narrow link road, Shelthorpe Avenue. Leading off these roads are a series of narrow culs-de-sac that provide intimate clusters of housing in contrast to the principal roads.

There is a broad uniformity in the style and appearance of the houses which are two storey, arranged in terraces of four or as semi-detached properties. They are built of smooth red brick with plain clay tile roofs. Some of the houses have slate hung cladding. Shelthorpe School and the Bull’s Head public house, now MacDonald’s, were built as part of the original development.

Shelthorpe Conservation Area Map (PDF Document, 0.2 Mb)

Shelthorpe Conservation Area Character Appraisal (text only) (PDF Document, 0.1 Mb)

Shelthorpe Conservation Area Character Appraisal (text only) (PDF Document, 0.1 Mb)