Charnwood Borough Council - Leading in Leicestershire

Descriptions are given below for the following buildings in Queniborough. In general the buildings are in the parish of Queniborough. 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
The Old Hall, Coppice Lane (east side) - Grade II*
7, Main Street (south side) - Grade II
25, Main Street (south side) - Grade II
71, Main Street (south side) - Grade II
73, Main Street (south side) - Grade II
75 and 77, Main Street (south side) - Grade II
79, Main Street (south side) - Grade II
81, Main Street (south side) - Grade II
85, Main Street (south side) - Grade II
12 and 14, Main Street (north side) - Grade II
Pump rear of 12, Main Street (north side) - Grade II
22-28 (even), Main Street (north side) - Grade II
38-40, Main Street (north side) - Grade II
76 (The White House), Main Street (north side) - Grade II
80, Main Street (north side) - Grade II
82, Main Street (north side) - Grade II
84, Main Street (north side) - Grade II
86 (includes 88), Main Street (north side) - Grade II
Outbuilding rear of 86, Main Street (north side) - Grade II
94 Barn and Wall in New Hall Grounds, Main Street (north side) - Grade II
Church of St Mary, Main Street (north side) - Grade I
The New Hall, Main Street (north side) - Grade II
Milestone, Melton Road (north west side) - Grade II
Locally listed Buildings
Dovecote in Grounds of New Hall, Main Street (north side) - Delisted 4 July 90 on relocation to Queniborough Hall, Croxton Road - and now Locally Listed
The Coppice, Coppice Lane - Locally Listed
Wetherby House, Syston Road - Locally Listed
The Old Hall, Coppice Lane (east side) - Grade II*
Large house 1675-6. Brick on cobble plinth with Swithland slate roof. Originally an H-plan house, but now lacking the front right hand wing, and with a central wing added to the front elevation in the C19. 2 storeys with attics, left hand gabled wing with 8 light wood mullioned and transomed windows to ground and 1st floors, 2 light casement in attic. Dated in gable apex, 1676 with initials B over T.E. Adjoining this, and advanced slightly, is the later gabled wing, also with wood mullioned and transomed windows. Recessed to its right one bay of the original central section contains a 6 light mullioned and transomed window to the ground floor, 4 lights above. Refronted gable replacing former wing to right with door in wood architrave wood mullioned and transomed window above. Decorative cyma moulded brick bands form string course and arches over ground and 1st floor windows in the original sections of the facade, and are then continuous across side and rear of the house. Massive brick central stacks, and on end gable. Original H-plan retained on rear elevation. Symmetrical outer gables with decorative brick bands rising over 4 light mullioned and transomed windows on ground and 1st floors, and forming hoodmould to attic window. Central section recessed but also gabled, 2 decorative brick arches to each floor, those on ground floor unrelated to the single large mullioned and transomed window. Doorway to right. Date in right hand gable apex, 1675 with initials B over T.E. Interior has various beamed rooms, 1 with inglenook and 2 original newel staircases with turned balusters. Massive roof timbers with windbraces etc. Lower service wing projects to left of front elevation, joined to the main house by a C19 addition, but itself probably late C17 or early C18. Brick, with Swithland slate roof. Former stables to left with 3 partially blocked doors and 3 gabled dormers in the roof. Coped gable to right, then main range. Three 2 light casement windows, only one original, with segmentally arched brick head. Door with brick arched head and a wide shallow bank arch to its right at ground level. One other original window and one insertion. Three dormers above. Moulded brick eaves. One curved principal roof truss visible within. The house may incorporate elements of an earlier house where Prince Rupert stayed in 1642, during the Civil War.
7, Main Street (south side) - Grade II
House, formerly 2 cottages, probably early C18 core, altered and refronted C19. Timber framed, but now largely encased in brick. Of the frame, the wall plate and the joist ends on it are clearly visible, and there is one central post on a padstone, recessed within the brick wall. Welsh slate roof is a heightening on the original wall and replacing thatch. 2 storeys, 2 unit plan with later outshut. Doorway in gable wall beneath bracketed porch. Front elevation has two outer 3 light casement windows and a single central light, all with cambered brick heads, and there are traces of former openings in the brickwork. Another single post and padstone in the rear wall. Roughly chamfered spine beams within.
25, Main Street (south side) - Grade II
Large house, early C19, extended to rear in later C19. Brick with slate roof. 3 storeys (including a low attic storey), 3 bays with central doorway - a 6 panelled door with over light and wood architrave supporting bracketed canopy, raised up on two steps which have fine wrought iron rails. 16 light sash windows to each floor (8 lights to attic), all with cambered brick heads. Sill bands wood modillion eaves cornice. One later C19 bay to left with a 12 light sash window on each floor. Gable end stacks.
71, Main Street (south side) - Grade II
Cottage. Early C19, possibly on earlier core. Brick on cobble and moulded brick plinth, Swithland slate roof, 2 storeys, a single unit plan with 4 panelled door to left beneath flat porch canopy, and a 3 light casement to each floor to the right, the lower with a cambered brick head. Dentilled eaves cornice. Tall brick stack on right hand gable.
73, Main Street (south side) - Grade II
Cottage. Early C19, probably on earlier core: the cobble and brick plinth looks earlier. Brick with Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys, 2 unit plan with central doorway, with cambered head beneath a flat porch canopy. To its left a 2 light casement, and outer archway to passage, and to right, a 3 light and single light casement. Two upper windows are of 2 and 3 lights, and all opening have cambered brick heads. Dentilled eaves cornice. Stack on right hand gable.
75 and 77, Main Street (south side) - Grade II
House. Dated 1703. Brick on cobble and moulded brick plinth, with Welsh slate roof. Narrow gable on to street. 3 storeys, a single bay. Doorway to left and renewed window to right: the cambered head of the former opening visible above. 2 first floor windows and 1 attic window are also renewed beneath deep flat arched brick heads. Sill bands. Date in blue bricks below first floor windows. Overhanging eaves. Earlier bay to left is partially timber framed and has one post and archbrace beneath a tie or former wall plate, heightened above with brick. Blank recess to right, and cart entry through to rear, probably renewed. Welsh slate roof. Possibly formerly part of No. 79.
79, Main Street (south side) - Grade II
Small cottage. Mostly C16, with later wing to rear. Timber framed with brick infill, a single central post, wall plate with one archbrace and part of corner post, and impression of another archbrace removed and replaced with brick. Cobble plinth and no sill beam. One storey with attic, a single unit plan. Doorway and a single 3 light casement left of it in the front elevation. The side wall has angle posts with archbraces to a cambered tie beam. Middle rail and A frame forming gable. A single 2 light horizontally sliding sash window to attic. Projecting side wall brick flue. Later brick wing to rear.
81, Main Street (south side) - Grade II
House, formerly vicarage. Mid C19. Brick with low pitched Welsh slate roof Italianate villa style. 2 storeys, 3 bays, the central a slightly projecting narrow gable with overhanging eaves. Doorway in wood architrave with flat canopied head on consoles. 12 light sash window to first floor and round window with 4 stuccoed keystones in the gable apex. Left hand bay has renewed ground floor window in original opening with flat arched brick head with stuccoed keystone. Right hand bay has a roof canted bay window to ground floor, with sashes. Upper windows are 12 light sashes with flat arched heads and stuccoed keystones. Side wall and axial stacks. Three gable range to rear. Single storey hipped roofed extension of one bay recessed to left.
85, Main Street (south side) - Grade II
House, partially C16, extended or altered in late C17 or early C18. Now gable end to street though orientation changed with addition of rear range. The street range now forms a cross wing, but may have been an integral unit. It is rendered over a timber frame, which is visible in one wall internally as close studding with sill on a high rubble plinth. Externally, the plinth is apparent all the way round. Welsh slate roof. The street frontage contains 2 massive projecting rubble stacks with 2 and 3 brick flues and, between them, the wall is of rubble and brick with 2 wood mullioned and transomed windows lighting the stairs. In the front gable wall are two wood mullioned and transomed windows, and to the rear, a triple light sash to each floor. The gable itself is jettied in the apex.

Rear wing is brick, 2 storeys and 2 bays. Doorway in angle with moulded wood architrave capped by a reclining carved lion. The two windows to its right are wood mullioned and transomed lights with flat arched heads. Upper windows are 4 light sashes with cambered heads (1 new light over door). Brick plinth and moulded string course. Insurance sign above door. Beyond this a lower wing also brick with plinth and a plain string course. Various casement windows with cambered heads either side of the doorway. The rear of this wing is cobble up to first floor level, with some blocked brick arched openings. Rear of main range has 2 bay windows with leaded lights c1920.
12 and 14, Main Street (north side) - Grade II
Pair of cottages, C18 core and C19 alterations. Brick on cobble plinth, Welsh slate roofs. Now 2 storeys, but this represents a C19 heightening: Former roof line clearly visible in gable wall. No. 14 has central door in moulded wood architrave and flanking 3 light windows: only the lower central section opens. No. 12 has doorway to right in moulded wood architrave, one 3 light window left of it, and beyond, a paired sash window with small upper panes to each door. Other upper windows are 3 light horizontally sliding sashes. Lower windows have slightly cambered heads. Axial and gable end stacks. Right hand gable coped when heightened.
Pump rear of 12, Main Street (north side) - Grade II
Pump. Early C19. Plain wood casing.
22-28 (even), Main Street (north side) - Grade II
Row of 4 cottages. Early C19. Brick, with Welsh slate roofs. 2 storeyed and each cottage a single unit plan, with doorway and 3 light horizontally sliding sash window to ground floor and a 2 light casement above. All openings have cambered brick heads and the windows have decorative gothic tracery in the upper lights. Some rear windows are similarly decorated. Nos. 26 and 28 still have the original planked doors. Paired moulded brick axial stacks, and one on right hand gable. Behind No. 28, a single storey single bay later C19 extension, brick with Swithland slate roof, and a canted bay window with elaborate ornamental iron glazing bars.
38-40, Main Street (north side) - Grade II
Pair of cottages. Probably mid C18, though perhaps with earlier core. Painted brick, with thatched roof. 1½ storeys. No 38 is advanced slightly, a single unit plan with outer 6 panelled door in wood architrave and 3 light horizontally sliding sash window to right, 2 light window with eyebrow dormer above. No. 40 has central doorway in wood architrave and horizontally sliding sash windows: 3 lights to left, 2 to right. Upper 2 light windows with eyebrow dormers. All lower windows have cambered heads. Axial and right hand gable stacks.

No 38 has ‘County Insurance’ sign. No. 40 has a cobble plinth, and a new coped gable.
76 (The White House), Main Street (north side) - Grade II
House. Core probably C16, much altered in C18. Brick on rubble plinth, substantial remains of an earlier timber framed building. A cruck is visible in the west gable, with spurs carrying wall plate which runs at eaves level. There is a trace of a similar cruck in the east gable and 2 tie beams visible in section below the wall plate in the front wall. Thatched roof. 1½ storeys, with central doorway in a modern thatched porch. Renewed 3 light windows each side of it. 2 dormers above. Brick sill band. Projecting stack on right hand gable. Rear wing of painted brickwork apparently C18 or earlier, with 1 corner post and a wall plate visible in addition to the brickwork.
80, Main Street (north side) - Grade II
House. Largely C17 but gable onto street is C18 refronting. House itself is timber framed in square panels with timber of small scantling, on a brick plinth with no sill beam and a middle rail. Panels infilled with brick. Thatched roof. 2 small new windows in this elevation. Front gable wall is brick, with a plinth and coping. It contains the doorway on the left, with glazed upper panels in a moulded wood case. New bay window to right juts out of an older opening with cambered brick head. 2 light horizontally sliding sash window above. Gable end stacks. Wing parallel to street, C18, brick with thatched roof and axial stack. 2 bays, renewed ground floor windows, and upper horizontally sliding sashes.
82, Main Street (north side) - Grade II
House. Early C19. Brick with new tiled roof. Tall single unit plan on 3 storeys, with doorway to right with overlight and flat arched brick head. Left of it, a window with upper opening lights: renewed in original opening with cambered brick head. First floor window is similar. Attic window is a 2 light casement. One segmental arched moulded brick opening to cellar below. Gable end stacks.
84, Main Street (north side) - Grade II
Cottage. Early C18 but with possible earlier core. Brick with upper storey a planked heightening, and modern leaded roof over thatch. 1½ storeys, 2 unit plan, with central doorway beneath a bracketed porch. To either side, a 3 light casement window, with cambered heads. 1 blocked window to outer left, and possibly another on outer right. One 2 light casement gabled dormer window, and a small 2 light casement below the eaves. Cobble and moulded brick plinth. Moulded brick sill band. Cross sections of 2 pieces of timber visible to right of doorway, 1 in plinth and 1 at ceiling height. Stack on right hand gable. Small, but with some pretensions and possibly refronting an earlier building.
86 (includes 88), Main Street (north side) - Grade II
House. Dated 1730 but with earlier core. Brick on cobble plinth and thatched roof. Main range with higher gable to right. The main range is a low 2 storeys, the original plan form obscured by the blocking of the original openings: 4 flat arched brick heads are visible. 2 of them are over existing 3 light casements which are now wider than the original openings. The 3 upper windows are 2 and 3 light horizontally sliding sashes. 2 axial stacks, 1 of them very close to the left hand gable stack. Taller coped gable to right has a triple light sash window to ground floor, with cambered head, and a 2 light casement above with flat arched head. Dated over central bay of main range on a decorated slate, with initials TW.

To the rear remnants of an earlier timber framed building exist in the brickwork: an angle post and padstone, and one arch brace in the wing, and the wall plate in the main range.
Outbuilding rear of 86, Main Street (north side) - Grade II
Outbuilding, possibly formerly a dwelling, core of C16 or C17. Timber framed with new tiled roof, 2 storeyed. Of the frame, angle posts, middle rail and wall plate are visible in south and east walls. Some close studding and tension braces in gable wall, and various posts in east wall. New windows and door. Included for group value.
94 Barn and Wall in New Hall Grounds, Main Street (north side) - Grade II
Barn, now a dwelling. Dated 1741. Brick with Welsh slate roof. A long and high range with outer wide shallow arched openings with stone springers and dated keystones. The left hand archway is now glazed and both have timber planking in the upper section. Diamond patterned air vents to either side. New windows to ground floor. Adjoining and fronting the barn, a wall, C19, brick, included for group value.
Church of St Mary, Main Street (north side) - Grade I
Parish Church. Largely late C13 to early C14, but with parts of the fabric considerably earlier. Granite and sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings. West tower and spire, nave with clerestory and 2 aisles, chancel. The tower is coursed granite rubble with white ashlar dressings. 3 stages, with angle buttresses, and perpendicular west doorway with tall 2 light window above. Clock and square latticed stonework opening to 2nd stage. Paired traceried lights to bell chamber above. Quatrefoil lozenge frieze and corbel table. Embattle parapet. Tall and very slender needle spire recessed above, in white stone. Crockets on all the angles and 3 tiers of lucarnes, the lowest a triple light opening with a triangular head and geometric tracery. All have crocketted gables. South aisle is coursed sandstone rubble, with a Y-traceried west window, almost round arched, with corbel heads. Its south wall is rendered and buttressed, some of the buttresses clearly relatively recent additions. South door in low pitched porch. Decorated early C14 tracery to the 3 windows, uncusped 3 light ogees, with stone corbel heads: some tracery renewed. Stone plinth and eaves cornice. Perpendicular clerestory is coursed granite rubble and the 3 light windows have hood moulds and a concave chamfer or splay. Impression of earlier steeply pitched chancery roof in its east wall. Chancel is the earliest part of the fabric: coursed granite rubble or cobble, with 2 decorated traceried lights with corbel heads in south wall. Its east wall is rendered over rubble, and there is a fragment of sill course cut by the east window which is 3 lancets. In the north wall, one decorated window and one small round arched opening, late Saxon or early Norman, with the arched head cut from a single stone. Its sill is part of a band which is continuous across the north wall, and which would have linked with the fragment on the east wall, suggesting that the east wall was partially rebuilt when its window was inserted and that the main fabric of the chancel is late Saxon or early Norman. North east angle of nave has big rough quoins in its lower section. Buttressed north aisle with hoodmoulds with corbel heads to its 3 windows which have quatrefoil above 3 trefoiled lights. North doorway has a moulded ogee archway on triple chamfered piers.

Inside, a nave arcade of 4 bays, round piers and double chamfered arches: circular capitals to south, some nail head decoration to north: north east respond cut away partially. West bay filled by low modern wood partitions. Blocked in triple chamfered arch to tower, and above it the impression of the earlier steeply pitched nave roof. Nave roof is perpendicular: moulded tie beams have ornately carved and picturesque central bosses: beasts etc. Smaller foliate bosses by purlins. Aisle roofs are a rougher construction. Wide early C14 double chamfered chancel arch. Doorway to former rood to north. Perpendicular wood chancel screen with traceried openwork upper panels above a vine frieze and lower panels with foliate tracery pattern, 3 each side of a central finely worked archway. Chancel walls are exposed rubble, Piscina to south, aumbrey to north. Both south windows are contained in full height recesses. Deep single splay to the earlier north window. Low pitched perpendicular timber roof with moulded tie beams.

Plain front, probably C13: a heavy round basin on a round stem. Stained glass in chancel, the east window of 1918 in the style of Burne Jones, two others in the chancel of the 1920’s. Wall memorial tablet below north east arcade respond: 1586, carved inscription and a rampant lion. Brass memorial to Margaret Bury, d 1633.
The New Hall, Main Street (north side) - Grade II
Large House. Mostly of c1820, but possibly refronting an earlier building and with late C19 or early C20 additions. Stuccoed or rough cast rendered brickwork throughout, with Swithland slate roof. 2 storeyed. To the garden front, the older part is of 4 bays, the outer 2 projecting slightly. That to left has a canted bay window to ground floor with floor level lights, and a parapet. Above it, a low 16 light sash window, and over it, a blank recessed panel with incised key decoration. The right hand bay has a higher canted bay window to ground floor, and a deeper sash window above. Each of these outer bays has full height pilasters on the angles. Two central bays have floor level 15 light sashes to ground floor, 9 lights above. All windows have moulded lugged architraves. Deep plain entablature or parapet. One lower and reputedly earlier bay to left. Right hand section is c1900. 2 storeys, 3 bays. The left hand bay has a parapet decorated with ball finials, and contains a loggia to ground floor with 2 Tuscan columns behind which a doorway and mullioned window are recessed. 4 light stone mullioned window above. Central bay is a full height canted bay window beneath an embattled parapet, with 5 light mullions. Right hand bay has a 4 light stone mullioned window on each floor.

The entrance front is largely late Victorian: 2 bays left of doorway have half timbered gables and the door itself is contained in a full height half timbered and jettied gabled porch. Double doors to ground floor and a long low wood mullioned light above. One round arched window to hall at each floor right of the porch in the earlier part of the house, then a hipped gabled projection and a later wing with 12 timbered gable and pent roofed extension to ground floor. Various casement and sash windows and decorative brick sill courses. Swithland slate roofs or pitch too low to be visible on garden front.
Dovecote in Grounds of New Hall, Main Street (north side) - Delisted 4 July 90
Milestone, Melton Road (north west side) - Grade II
Milestone. Mid C19. Cast iron. 3 sided base with round arched cap on which is written the name of the parish. On the sides distances are recorded “Melton 9 miles” , “Leicester 6 miles”.
The Coppice, Coppice Lane - Locally Listed
Country House, Farm, Outbuildings and Barns. Origins obscured by extensive redevelopment. Earliest Barns and Outbuildings perhaps Late C18 in origin. House perhaps mainly Early C19. Major Late Victorian and C20 alterations, extensions and ‘new build’ result in a disharmonious collection of buildings unified only by the use of local materials and general ‘pleasing’ neglect. Now, part working Farm, part Apartments within House, part Barn conversions and part crude C20 ‘new build’.

Country House. Mainly Victorian with Italianate elements. Local red brick with buff brick quoins and expressed string course aligned with cills to 1st floor windows. Hipped roof reclad with profiled clay/concrete tiles. Deep eaves above dentilated stone cornice. Off centre ridge stack, perhaps earlier and indicating substantial reconstruction. W facing main façade, 3 bays, centre bay set back. Flanking bays contain stone dressed chamfered bay windows rising through 2 storeys. Intermediate spandrel panels with Baroque style relief decoration. Generally, 2 pane vertical sliding sash windows. Substantial accommodation at rear suggests earlier origins and later additions using salvaged materials embracing a variety styles, Vernacular, Jacobean and Victorian. Curious 3 storey C20? extension with rendered upper storey contains stone dressed and framed 2 storey window surmounted by a classical pediment, probably Jacobean Revival but possibly salvaged from an earlier building.

Outbuildings. Mainly Late C18 and Early C19. Vernacular styling. Local Red brick. Pitched roofs, generally reclad with profiled clay/concrete tiles
Dovecote at Queniborough Hall, Croxton Road - Locally Listed
Dovecote. Dated 1705. Originally a listed building. Neglect threatened collapse onto adjoining properties. Accordingly, dismantled and rebuilt on a new site within the curtilage of the Hall. Red brick Date and initials ‘1705WW’ expressed in relief brickwork below eaves to main elevation, underlined by projecting decorative string course embracing all facades. Swithland slate pitched roof with pitched dormer. Central timber ridge lantern with pyramidal roof. Upstanding gables. Projecting brick coping surmounted by corbelled brick finials. 2 storeys. Centre arched head plank door with relief arched hood mould. Removed from statutory list following reconstruction.
Wetherby House, Syston Road - Locally Listed
Private House. Early/Mid C19. Transitional Regency/Early Victorian styling. Local mellow red brick. Hipped Swithland? slate roof with deep dentilated eaves. 2 stacks with corbelled heads. 2 storeys. 3 bays with centre door flanked by stone built storey height flat roofed canted bay windows. Door with fanlight and horizontal cornice moulding above. Painted stone / stucco dressings to all openings. Simple 2 paned vertical sliding sash windows to GF, 4 paned sashes to 1st floor.