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Descriptions are given below for listed buildings in Prestwold. In general the buildings are in the parish of Prestwold. 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
Church of Saint Andrew, Prestwold Hall - Grade II*
Prestwold Hall, Prestwold Hall - Grade I
Garden Walls, Prestwold Hall - Grade II
Stable Block, Prestwold Hall - Grade II
Laundry Cottage, Prestwold Hall - Grade II
Lodge and Gates, Prestwold Hall - Grade II
North Lodge, Prestwold Hall - Grade II
Sunday School House, Prestwold Hall - Grade II
Locally Listed Buildings
Home Farm, Loughborough Road - Locally Listed
Emonon & Honesuckle Cottage, Prestwold Lane - Locally Listed
Woodside Cottage, Prestwold Lane - Locally Listed
Church of Saint Andrew, Prestwold Hall - Grade II*
Medieval parish church largely rebuilt 1890 by Sir A Blomfield. Mainly of random rubble with ashlar dressings but with some coursed rubble walling to S wall of chancel. Late C14 buttressed west tower with 4 principal stages, 2-light traceried openings to bell chamber, west door and 2-light traceried window above, with corbel heads to hoodmould, decorated frieze below embattled parapet. Nave of 4 bays, all of 1890, random rubble with sandstone dressings, curvilinear tracery to windows, that to SE having a stilted arch. Chancel retains much medieval masonry, showing 2 builds in S wall, and a 2-light reticulated traceried window with shafts, and a blocked wide lancet window. 1 Victorian Y-tracery lancet, and S door and east wall and window of 1890.
Interior very plain and all of 1890 but there is a fine collection of memorials of the Packe family and their predecessors, in the Chancel, including two late C15 alabaster tomb chests with bedesmen and angels. One has an incised slab commemorating Sir Richard Nele and Isabel his wife, 1476, the other has 2 recumbent unknown female figures. Wall tomb to Sir William Skipwith and Jane his wife, 1631, a large recessed monument in various marbles, a double tomb within aedicule, the 2 recumbent figures lie on different levels, ornate, mannerist style. Monument to Christopher Packe of Cotes, d1682 the first Packe to acquire the hall, in 1653, a semi-reclining figure on a tomb chest with inscription, pediment etc. above, in Baroque style. Charles Hussey Packe, d1842 aged 15, a marble recumbent child figure by Westmacott jr., and various other memorials by noted C18 and C19 sculptors.
The Church is of interest for being almost the sole reminder of the medieval village of Prestwold, destroyed in the enclosure of the estate and it is noteworthy that a previous restoration of 1743 had provided the Church with a nave in the classical style, with round headed windows, oculi and a south door in architrave. Photographs of this building survive in the Church, showing also the high pews, gallery and double decker pulpit, but no traces of any of this survive in the fabric.
Prestwold Hall, Prestwold Hall - Grade I
Hall, now largely as remodelled by William Burn in 1842-4 but incorporating a mid C18 H-plan house which influenced Burn’s plan and choice of style, and possibly fragments of something earlier still. Prestwold is of interest as one of Burn’s earlier English commissions, and one of his few houses in a classical style. All that is now visible is his work, in an elegantly wrought classical. The earlier brick house has been replaced and extended using Ancaster stone, ashlar throughout with angle quoins, sill courses and a modillion eaves cornice with balustraded parapets. The entrance (west) front is 3 storeys, 3-3-3, with the central bays recessed. In the centre is a projecting porte cochere, Roman Doric with 4 columns, triglyph frieze and cornice. Beneath this a doorway and pair of flanking windows with moulded stone aprons, all with semi circular arched heads. The central 1st floor windows of the projecting outer bays have pediments supported on consoles, and the ground floor windows have consoles supporting sills, and moulded aprons. All windows are sashes in shouldered architraves. To the left, a Doric collonade leads to the return wall of the stable yard and its entrance, ashlar, a shallow arch with projecting keystone, cornice and balustraded parapet above. The flanking wall is relieved by projecting pilasters, and a plain frieze and cornice.
Garden front, 3 storeys, 2-3-3-3. Sash windows with shouldered architraves. Outer 3 bays have full height segmental arched windows to ground floor. A conservatory fills the recessed central 3 bays, and projects slightly . Glass between elegant Doric pilasters, a cornice breaking forward over each one. Glass and iron roof. The central 1st floor window above has a pediment supported on consoles. 2nd floor windows are all on consoles.
East front was a completely new addition by Burn. 1 bay of ashlar with tripartite windows to each floor, full height on ground floor, and then 4 bays of painted brickwork with stone architraves to windows, solid parapet and panelled ashlar chimneys flush with wall face.
Internally, the finest room is the entrance hall with richly coloured marble walls and coffered ceiling painted in imitation of Raphael’s Vatican groteques, with arabesques etc., and incorporating miniature landscapes showing the house before and after restoration. Below are small medallion busts of the poets. An arcade opens on to a vaulted corridor leading to a top lit inner hall, these spaces also marbled. Other rooms include the library, drawing room and dining room, which all have plaster cornices, light plaster panelled ceilings, fine doorcases, and marble fireplaces. Doors and bookcases in library, 1875, Gillows. The cantilevered stone staircase survives from the C18 house, given its bracketted brass balusters by Wilkins, c1805. There is much concealed use of constructional cast iron in the house, for instance to support the lantern of the inner hall.
To the rear (North) of the house the service wing extends, forming one range of the stable courtyard. By Burn, who was noted for his skilful planning and arrangements for the discreet and efficient servicing of country houses, extended c1890. 2 storeys. Brick with slate roofs. Various doors and window openings with gauged brick heads, some altered.
See: Mark Girouard: The Victorian Country House 1975 pp138-42
Country Life, April 1959 pp828, 890, 948.
Garden Walls, Prestwold Hall - Grade II
Garden walls forming terrace/Ha-Ha, by Burn, 1842-2. Low coped stone walling, with alternating sections of solid ashlar and balustraded parapet, a curved projection in centre of S range, and stone seats incorporated in W and E angles. Ornamented with urns.
Stable Block, Prestwold Hall - Grade II
Stable block, forming the North side of stable courtyard, c1840. Brick, with slate roof. A low 2 storeys, 6 bays with 2 central shallow arched carriage entrances, and various windows with stone sills and gauged brick heads.
Laundry Cottage, Prestwold Hall - Grade II
Cottage, late C16, sole survivor of former village of Prestwold. Timber framed in large panels, 4 x 2 high with arch bracing on a brick and rubble plinth, infilled with wattle and daub and brick. Thatched roof. Rear wall has no openings, door and windows (horizontal sliding sashes) all on front (E) wall. Built in 2 distinct parts, separately roofed, with brick stack between the 2 parts. Large outshuts, also thatched, to North and South.
Lodge and Gates, Prestwold Hall - Grade II
Two identical single storey lodges. C1820-40. Rendered brick with stone dressings. 4-columned arcade in front of doorway, and angle pilasters to road front are all fluted Doric with a triglyph frieze which forms a parapet to a small hipped roof with central ashlar stack. Door and sash windows all have stone architraves. Alignment note quite parallel to drive increases the perspective down the drive. Curved flanking walls are also rendered and terminate in piers with ball finials. Wrought iron gates, the principal pair flanked by 2 pedestrian gates, all with spear head decoration. Cast iron trellis-work gate piers with ball finials. One of the lodges bears the date 1821. Although their style links them with Burn’s work on the house, they may therefore predate this, and are possibly by Wilkins, who had been employed to make some alterations, c1805.
North Lodge, Prestwold Hall - Grade II
Picturesque Cottage, 1850. Brick with slate roof and central stack. 1½ storeys, asymmetrical. Road front has projecting gable to right, and a bay of 1½ storeys with gabled dormer and staircase window. All windows have ornamental brick hoodmould and all but one have wood mullions and latticed panes on the S wall, a projecting gabled porch with 4-centred arched opening, and beyond this, 2 further latticed windows with hoodmoulds.
Sunday School House, Prestwold Hall - Grade II
Built as a girls school in 1834, later made into a Sunday school, and now modified to form a dwelling house. 1½ storeys, brick with Swithland slate roof, and gable to left. Central archway beneath gable, hoodmoulds to pointed arched door and to windows, which are triple lancets beneath flat lintels (some lights partially blocked). To left a late C19 extension with similar detailing, gable windows with stone dressing and hoodmoulds, and decorative strapwork over upper window dated with initials CJP over doorway. To right of main facade an additional bay of C20.
Home Farm, Loughborough Road - Locally Listed
Farmhouse, Cottage and Barns. Attractive cluster of mellow red brick buildings perhaps once part of the Packe family estate. Farmhouse perhaps Early Victorian. Local red brick. Swithland slate hipped roof with tall ridge and gable stacks. Corbelled brick cornice detail under deep eaves. 3 bays to front elevation. Canted storey height bay windows with slate pitched roofs on GF flank central entrance. Pitched roof entrance porch may be later. Generally, 4 paned vertical sliding sash windows. Cottage perhaps mid Victorian. Simple Vernacular styling. Swithland slate pitched roof with gable stacks. Flat brick arched openings with casement windows. Barns probably Early C19. Mellow red brick with Swithland slate hipped and pitched roofs. Some discreetly converted to living accommodation.
Emonon & Honesuckle Cottage, Prestwold Lane - Locally Listed
Two Private Dwellings. Originally a terrace of 3 Cottages, perhaps contemporary with Woodside Cottage and also built for Hall staff. Emonon on right appears to embrace 2 cottages. Mellow red brick. Swithland slate hipped roof. 3 large ridge stacks but stack to Honeysuckle Cottage does not match others. Two storeys. Generally casement windows. 1 late C19 rectangular bay with deep cornice and lead flat to front. A number of arched openings replaced with flat heads to accommodate enlarged windows. Hipped roof to Honeysuckle Cottage embraces an extension to rear. Break in line of eaves and mismatched stack suggests that Honeysuckle Cottage may be a later addition. Alterations, particularly to Emonon detract from the overall composition.
Woodside Cottage, Prestwold Lane - Locally Listed
Private Residence. Formerly a pair of cottages probably built for Prestwold Hall estate staff. Plaque above porch door inscribed CWP 1851. (C W Packe then owner of the Hall). Vernacular styling with Gothic Revival embellishments. Mellow red brick. Pitched slate roof, part Swithland slate. Large centre ridge stack with corbelled head and 2 stone pots. Two storeys. Rectangular plan with pitched roof entrance porch on each blank gable. 4 casement windows to front elevation. Arched door opening with terra cotta hood mould. Sympathetic pitched roof extension at rear.