Charnwood Borough Council - Leading in Leicestershire

Descriptions are given below for the following buildings in Shepshed. In general the buildings are in the parish of Shepshed. 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
White Lodge, Garendon Park, Ashby Road (north side) - Grade II
36, Belton Street (south side) - Grade II
2, Bridge Street (south side) - Grade II
44 Brooklyn House, Brook Street (west side) - Grade II
3 National Westminster Bank, Bull Ring (east side) - Grade II
The Pied Bull, Belton Road (north side) - Grade II
St Winifreds Church, Belton Street (south side) - Grade II
25, Chapel Street (north side) - Grade II
Fenney Windmill, Charley Road (west side) - Grade II
37, Charnwood Road (west side) - Grade II
St Botolphs Church, Church Side (north side) - Grade I
26-28, Church side (north side) - Grade II
30, Church Street (north side) - Grade II
32, Church Street (north side) - Grade II
34, Church Street (north side) - Grade II
15, Church Gate (south side) - Grade II
Bethesda Chapel, Forest Street (east side) - Grade II
The Grange, Forest Street (east side) - Grade II
77, Forest Street (west side) - Grade II
The White House, Forest Street (west side) - Grade II
Shepshed Mill, Hathern Road (west side) - Grade II
Longcliffe Lodge Farmhouse, Ingleberry Road (east side) - Grade II
25 (Forest House), Leicester Road (west side) - Grade II
42, 44 (previously 32 and 34), Loughborough Road (east side) - Grade II
9 (Hair by John) and 9a, Market Place (east side) - Grade II
9b (Cottage Fayre) and Cottage adj, Market Place (east side) - Grade II
32, Queen Street (north side) - Grade II
34 (The Old Queens Head Restaurant), Queen Street (north side) - Grade II
40, Sullington Road (east side) - Grade II
Locally Listed Buildings
Blackbrook Farm, Ashby Road - Locally Listed
Lubcloud Farm, Charley Road - Locally Listed
St Winefride R C Church, Charnwood Road - Locally Listed
The Elms Presbytery, Charnwood Road - Locally Listed
Fishpool Grange, Forest Lane, Belton - Locally Listed
Shortcliffe Farm, Ingleberry Road - Locally Listed
Charnwood Forest Canal Tunnel, Off Ashby Road - Locally Listed

White Lodge, Garendon Park, Ashby road (north side) - Grade II
Lodge, perhaps C17 in origin, remodelled early C19. Stone built, stucco faced. Hipped Swithland slate roof, 2 ridge stacks. Deep eaves. Two storeys, 3 bays. South front rusticated, with giant engaged Doric columns supporting pediment over massive central double doors with radiating fanlight above, approached by 7 steps. Sash windows to either side. Rear (north) front has 2 low doorways with plain architraves and plank doors, and 2-light horizontally sliding sash windows (one to ground floor retains hooks for shutters). Remodelled to serve as an eye catcher from Ashby Road.
36, Belton Street (south side) - Grade II
House, early C18, red brick on plinth of granite (to right) and brick (to left). Hipped Swithland slate roof, 2 brick stacks on rear slope. Three storeys, 3 window range, double fronted. Coved brick eaves. Raised flat bands between storeys. Central 6-pane door* in moulded door case (* with rectangular fanlight with glazing bars above) beneath plain shell hood. Ground floor: left hand side, C19 door and shop front with glazing bars. Right hand side C19 16-pane sash windows. 1st floor: 2 light casements with glazing bars and over lights within cambered heads (central one narrower). Second floor: two 2-light horizontally sliding sash windows with glazing bars. Three firemarks: Phoenix (No 2782), County and Notts & Derbys. The house commands an important site at a turn in the road.
2, Bridge Street (south side) - Grade II
House, C17 or earlier. Timber framed with rear cross wing and steeply pitched thatched roof. End chimneys (on slope of pitch in main range). Random granite rubble plinth. Substantial framing, the infill panels painted white over brick and rendering. Some carpenters’ marks visible. Main facade 2 bays with straight diagonal braces. The first floor within each bay has a blocked 4-light mullioned window. House now divided 1½ storeys with 3-light casements to ground floor and to dormer on street elevation. West side elevation has a 3-light window on each floor. Rear cross wing has dormer.
44 Brooklyn House, Brook Street (west side) - Grade II
House, now offices, early/mid C19, red brick, on brick plinth, hipped Swithland slate roof, ridge and end stacks. Three storeys, 3 window range, double fronted. Modillion cornice. Central 6-panel door with rectangular fanlight above, in reeded doorcase, approached by 4 steps. Sash windows with glazing bars (16 pane to ground and 1st floors, 8-pane to 2nd floor), rubbed brick heads (now painted), cills. Extensions to rear and to right hand side (the latter not of special architectural interest). Mid C19 railing in front.
3 National Westminster Bank, Bull Ring (east side) - Grade II
Bank and manager’s house (now incorporated into working area), dated inside 1904 by A E King of Loughborough. Brick and terracotta, hipped plain tile roof, decorative ridge tiles. Two elaborately moulded stacks on front face of roof. Eclectic, and extravagantly decorated. Two storeys, 5 window range, 1-2-1. Side projections, right hand one, incorporating high enriched bank entrance, beneath octagonal turret with lead capped roof, and miniature lantern and spire. Central block: ground floor windows with central mullions and keystones. Entrance to manager’s house in left hand part of building and replaced by window. 1st floor, cross windows between enriched Ionic columns. Frieze above, with putti representing the 4 seasons. Ceramic tiled entrance. Interior: coved ceiling with very elaborate plasterwork design of dancers, birds and flowers, with 3D figures of Mercury at the corners, carried on scagliola columns. Teak counter with “Ionic” columns, (and) panelled dado. “Baroque” doorcases and panelled doors in part which was the manager’s house. Built for the Nottingham and Notts Banking Company. N Pevsner, Leicestershire and Rutland.
The Pied Bull, Belton Road (north side) - Grade II
Public house, probably C17. Roughcast, probably over timber frame on rubble plinth. Thatched, but with rear slope of roof slated. Brick end stacks, and central stack to rear. Two storey, 3 window range. Gap in plinth indicates that door was originally between central and right hand bays, now between central and left hand bays, C20 porch. Three light casement windows with glazing bars. One storey extension to right hand side, roughcast with possible roof. Gabled brick extension to rear.
St Winifreds Church, Belton Street (south side) - Grade II
Roman Catholic Church, now disused; 1842 by A W N Pugin for Ambrose Lisle Phillipps, who provided some of the labour and material from the Garendon Estate. Built of granite rubble with Swithland slate roof under the direction of Pugin. Very simple exterior, nave and 2 aisles under one roof. Small lancet windows, tripartite lancet in east gable end. Small gabled south (ritual) porch with side entrance and integral buttress. Later north (ritual) vestry and brick bell cote over west (ritual) gable. Simple, but damaged, interior. Arcades with double chamfered brick arches on octagonal sandstone piers. Remains of inscriptions and murals by Anselm Baher (1834-1885), an heraldic artist and Cisterian monk at Mount St Bernards Abbey, Leicestershire. Inscriptions read: Nave, south, “Whosoever shall pray from this place hear then, O Lord, from heaven and shew mercy. 2 Saml. 2 Paral. 6/21”. Nave, north, “I have loved the beauty of thy house, O Lord, and the place where thy glory dwelled. Ps.25:8”. Chancel, south, “Hic est panis qui de Coelo descendit”. Chancel, north, “Ecce Panis Factus cibus Viatorium”. End has angel either side of window and dove descending above. “Sanctus Sanctus Sanctus W. Dominus Deus Sabaoth”.
25, Chapel Street (north side) - Grade II
House, C18 with C19 single storey eastern wing. Roughcast facade on slate plinth. Swithland slate roof with coped end gables and eastern end chimney. Roof carried low over 1½ storey section along part of rear. Truncated rear west cross wing has chimney. Main house 2½ storeys. Symmetrical facade with three 3-light horizontally sliding sashes with cambered heads. Four steps up to central 6 panelled door with fanlight. Attic window in gable end. C19east wing has C19 shop window. Beamed interior and large fireplace.
Fenney Windmill, Charley Road (west side) - Grade II
Windmill, mid C19, red brick, wooden ogee domical cap with metal ball finial. Four storey conical tower, diagonally set brick dentil cornice. Two sails remain of original four fantail. C20 windows. C20 house partly embraces mill to south. Large C20 French window projection to west.
37, Charnwood Road (west side) - Grade II
Cottage, early C19. Red brick slate roof, brick end stacks. Two storeys, 2 window range. Central 6 panel door in reeded doorcase, hood over. Ground floor has rubbed brick window heads and 16 pane sashes. 1st floor has 3-light casement windows with glazing bars. Brick dentil cornice.
St Botolphs Church, Church Side (north side) - Grade I
Parish Church, C13 west tower and spire. C15 nave, with clerestory and aisles, and chancel, C19 north porch and south vestry, 1935. South transept with vestry by Albert Herbert. C19 and C20 restorations. Of Charnwood granite rubble with ashlar dressings and Swithland slate roofs. Perpendicular tracery to nave and chancel. Three stage west tower lit by lancets with angles clasped by buttresses. Two-light bell chamber openings. Broach spire has 2-light lucernes with Y-tracery. Three bay nave has cruciform piers on tall bases. Roof dated 1636 and 1652 and renovated 1912. North aisle roof replaced 1952. Pointed chancel arch with 2 continuously chamfered orders. Chancel roof 1880. Medieval benches with heads and poppy heads on the ends. C14 font. Pinscina in south aisle. Pulpit by R Norman Shaw (Andrew Saint, Richard Norman Shaw, p 298). Chancel has piscina, C18 communion rail and a series of very fine monuments to the Phillipps family of Garendon. (N Pevsner, Leicestershire and Rutland, p 227; Harold Mack, Shepshed Parish Church). Many finely carved Swithland slate headstones in the churchyard.
26-28, Church side (north side) - Grade II
Cottages, mid C19 (No 26 has a rubble plinth which may indicate an earlier origin), brick, slate roof. One ridge stack, one end stack. Two storey, 4 window range. Round headed through passage to right of centre. Terracotta cornice. Four panel doors. Horizontally sliding sash windows with glazing bars. Late C19 shop front now shuttered, to left of passage. Listed for group value with adjoining buildings to right.
30, Church Street (north side) - Grade II
Cottage, early C19 (possibly earlier origin), brick, slate roof. Two storeys, single fronted. Flemish bond brickwork to 1st floor level, then stretcher bond of larger bricks above. Plan door in simple architrave to right. Three light C20 ground floor window. Two-light horizontally sliding sash window with glazing bars to 1st floor.
32, Church Street (north side) - Grade II
House, C17, timber frame with brick infill on public plinth, all rendered and painted white, brick end stack. Stone built wing heightened in brick, to rear also with brick end stack. Thatched roofs. 1½ and 2 storeys. One bay street front has C20 ground floor window and eyebrow dormer. Late C19 door in right hand return front.
34, Church Street (north side) - Grade II
House, possibly C16 or C17 in origin, rebuilt and enlarged C19. Two parallel ranges. Right hand range, ground floor of granite rubble, upper floor raised and rebuilt in brick. Left hand range of brick. Concrete pantile roofs. Brick end stacks. Two storeys, 2 window range. Windows mostly 3-light horizontally sliding sashes with glazing bars. Six panel door in left hand gable end. Brick outbuildings to rear.
15, Church Gate (south side) - Grade II
House, C17, enlarged late C18. Timber frame on granite plinth (all now rendered) with later brick wing to north. Concrete and plain tile roofs, brick north end stack. C17 block: one storey and attic and 2 storeys. Jettied west gable end. Collar and tie beam roof. C20 fenestration. North wing, 2 storey, one window range. Three light casement windows with glazing bars. Reed and plaster floors throughout.
Bethesda Chapel, Forest Street (east side) - Grade II
Chapel, dated 1823 on plaque, brick, hipped concrete pantile roof, later lateral stack. One storey, 3 bays. Brick console cornice, angles clasped by pilasters. Two light windows with Y-tracery. Ritual west (north) doorway with pointed arched stucco architrave and double 6-panel doors. Blind 2 light Y-traceried window above. Lower ritual east (south) extension, not of special interest.
The Grange, Forest Street (east side) - Grade II
Farmhouse, dated 1704 on rainwater head, enlarged early/mid C19. Central block and 2 gabled northern projections of rubble stone with Swithland slate and plain tile roofs. Brick ridge stacks. Rainwater head at junction of gables. Left hand projection has C19 porch. C19 and C20 windows. South range of brick, with hipped Swithland slate roof and brick end stacks. Two storey, 3 window range, double fronted. Deep eaves. Gabled door hood on brackets. Radiating fanlight. Rubbed brick window heads and brick hood moulds. 16-pane windows (12 pane 1st floor central window).
77, Forest Street (west side) - Grade II
House, mid C18, red brick, partly on granite plinth, slate roof. Brick end stack and ridge stack, right of centre. Two storeys, 3 window range. Three course raised brick band (central course diagonally set) above each storey. Entrance between left hand and central bays, C20 door and porch. Ground floor: 2 segmental headed. Three light horizontally sliding sash windows with small panes, right hand window C20. 1st floor: 3 smaller flat headed 3-light horizontally sliding sash windows with small panes.
The White House, Forest Street (west side) - Grade II
House, now flats. Late C17 (plaque with Hebrew inscription dated 1694, on rear staircase projection), recased late C18. Rendered and painted white, concrete pantile roof, hipped north end. Three storeys, double fronted, 1-1-1. Centre projects under pediment. Open pedimented stone Doric doorcase carried on engaged columns, round headed door recess, 6-panel door with radiating fanlight. Central 1st floor Venetian window (with side lights blocked). Central 2nd floor Diocletian window. Full height ground floor sash windows (15-pane), 12-pane. 1st floor and 6-pane 2nd floor windows. Stone window heads with double keystones. Wing to right hand side of 2 storeys but carried to full height of main block, 3 window range. Corbelled eaves cornice throughout. Band between ground and 1st floors. Rear (east) elevation: pedimented Ionic doorcase, doorway now blocked but rectangular fanlight with glazing bars survives. Raised bands between storeys.
Shepshed Mill, Hathern Road (west side) - Grade II
Watermill and house adjoining to east, early/mid C19. Brick with Swithland slate roofs. House 2 storeys, 3 window range. Three light windows beneath cambered heads. Central round headed doorway. Six panel door with fanlight above. Brick dentil cornice. End stacks. Mill: 2 storeys. Central access flanked by 2 light windows to both ground and upper levels. Brick dentil cornice. Iron wheel with wooden vanes. Unusual mill gearing.
Longcliffe Lodge Farmhouse, Ingleberry Road (east side) - Grade II
Farmhouse, late C18, Charnwood granite rubble with hipped concrete pantiled roof. Three storeys, double fronted, 3 window range. C19 twelve pane sash windows to ground and 1st floors, earlier 8-pane sashes to 2nd floor. Stucco window heads, incised voussoirs. Fine Adam style open pedimented doorcase. Fanlight. C20 doors. Parallel gable ended range to rear of Charnwood granite with brick dressings. Range of Charnwood granite buildings forming farm courtyard behind.
25 (Forest House), Leicester Road (west side) - Grade II
House, early/mid C19, yellow brick with stone dressings, hipped slate roof, 2 ridge stacks. Two storeys, double fronted, 1-1-1; central projection under pediment, angles clasped by brick pilasters. Deep bracketed cornice. Ground floor: French windows and central double 6-panel door, all with rectangular fanlights (with glazing bars) over. 1st floor: 16-pane sash windows. Bracketed window heads and cills. Artificial stone urns with lions’ heads and swags flank entrance. Later rear extension at right hand side, in keeping. Contemporary brick single fronted 2-storey cottage at rear of left hand side.
42, 44 (previously 32 and 34), Loughborough Road (east side) - Grade II
Timber framed building of medieval origin now 2 houses. Stone plinth, square panel framing with some angle braces. Infilling mainly of brick but some wattle and daub panels remain. The framing is of different heights suggesting that the lower left hand side of the building may be older. The timber framing appears to be interrupted near the centre of the facade where a brick wall extends to roof level, possibly replacing a former cross wing. Thatched roof to varying eaves height. Chimneys above 2nd and 4th bay division. 1½ and 2 storeys. Six ground floor windows, mostly casements with glazing bars. Garage doors under right hand side and a modern brick addition at the left hand side.
9 (Hair by John) and 9a, Market Place (east side) - Grade II
House, now shops, probably C17 in origin, timber framed, but front rebuilt in brick and rendered. Plain tile roof, end stacks. 1½ storeys. Two gabled dormers. No 9 has C19 doorway and 3-light horizontally sliding sash window with glazing bars and cambered head. No 9A has C20 shop window and door. Listed for group value with No. 96.
9b (Cottage Fayre) and Cottage adj, Market Place (east side) - Grade II
Cottage, probably C17, timber frame, part rebuilt in brick, roughcast and painted white. Thatched roof. Brick right hand end stack. 1½ storeys, 2 room plan. Two eyebrow dormers (2-light horizontally sliding sashes with glazing bars). Ground floor from left to right: C20 shop window and door, small angle light recessed window, 3-light horizontally sliding sash window with glazing bars, plank door.
32, Queen Street (north side) - Grade II
House, probably C17, timber frame with brick infill (now roughcast and painted white) on granite rubble plinth. Slate roof and brick end stacks (left hand one truncated). Two storeys, 2 window range. Square panel framing with straight braces. Central door approached by 3 steps. Tripartite fanlight. 1st floor windows: 2-light horizontally sliding sashes with glazing bars. Ground floor windows of 3 lights. (All windows boarded up, 1982).
34 (The Old Queens Head Restaurant), Queen Street (north side) - Grade II
House, now restaurant. Probably C17, extended C19. Right hand block probably timber framed on granite plinth, left hand cross wing probably brick (it has a dentil cornice), all now roughcast and painted white. Plain tile roofs; ridge, end and lateral stacks. Right hand block 1½ storeys, with 2 dormers breaking through eaves, two C20 four light windows to ground floor, C20 door at right hand end. The later wing has also been refenestrated (sometime “Queen’s Head public house). Listed for group value with No 32 (qv).
40, Sullington Road (east side) - Grade II
House, early C19, brick (rendered plinth), Swithland slate roof, 2 brick end stacks. Two storey, 3 window range, double fronted. Central round headed doorway with archivolts and keystone C20 door. 16 pane sash windows (12-pane central 1st floor window). Rubbled brick window heads, now painted. Brick cills.
Blackbrook Farm, Ashby Road - Locally Listed
Large Farm with house, workers cottages, barns and outbuildings. Part of Garendon Estate. Late C18, in origin with additional C20 outbuildings.
Farmhouse. Late C18 / Early C19. Georgian styling. Random Montsorrel granite. Slate pitched roof. 2 granite gable stacks with dressed stone top relieved by head mould carried on stone corbels. 3 bays with centre door. Small paned casement windows.
Worker’s Cottages. Late C18. Vernacular styling. Random Mountsorrel granite. Pitched plain clay tile roof. Brick stacks. Small paned casement windows under stone lintols.
Barns. Vernacular styling. Either red brick or random Mountsorrel granite. Pitched roofs, originally clad with clay pantiles or slate. Part recovered with corrugated asbestos sheet.
Lubcloud Farm, Charley Road - Locally Listed
Working Farm offering B&B accommodation. Outbuildings concealed from public view behind Farmhouse. Farmhouse perhaps Late C18 in origin with substantial C19 extension on W façade (fronting Charley Road) arranged in 3 gable bays.
Original Cottage at rear, facing E. Vernacular styling. Random Mountsorrel granite with brick dressed openings. Swithland slate pitched roofs. Outbuildings similar.
‘Extension’. Clumsy, plain, Neo-Georgian styling. Severe red brick. Plain stone lintols to openings. Swithland slate pitched roofs. Tall rectangular brick stacks. 2 storeys. Vertical sliding sash windows with 6 paned top lights. Flat topped storey height GF bay window with canted returns attached to L. gable
St Winefride R C Church, Charnwood Road - Locally Listed
Roman Catholic Church. Built 1927/8. Architect, Alan D Reid. Third Pointed Gothic Revival styling. Rectangular plan with offset battlemented bell tower at W end of S aisle. Brown Flemish bond brick with stone capped buttresses. Stone string courses, third pointed openings, window dressings and decoration. Pitched slate roof with upstanding stone capped gables. Stone cross surmounting apex of each gable. High altar salvaged from original St Winefride church built by Pugin, 1842.
The Elms Presbytery, Charnwood Road - Locally Listed
Villa style Priest’s House. Mid C19 in origin. Late Regency/Early Victorian styling. Local red brick. Hipped slate roof with deep eaves. Stacks removed. 2 storeys, 3 bays. Centre stone doorcase with pilasters and cornice. Margined fanlight above replacement door. Entrance flanked on GF by 15 pane vertical sash windows under expressed decorated lintols with cornice moulding carried on consoles. 1st floor openings similar but with 12 pane sashes. C20 single storey link to St Winefrides church on right.
Simple barn style outbuilding on L. Red brick under Swithland slate roof with segmental brick arched openings.
Fishpool Grange, Forest Lane, Belton - Locally Listed
Farmhouse and outbuildings arranged around large yard. Perhaps Late C18 in origin. C20 interventions. ‘Grange’ suggests that farm was once associated with a Monastery. Now farming activity limited to sheep rearing. Vernacular styling. Mountsorrel granite with shallow red brick on end arched openings. Pitched roofs – part Swithland slate, part replacement plain clay tiles. House, 2 storeys. Outbuildings single storey. Many C20 interventions including replacement doors and windows. ‘Gentrified’ fish pool remains.
Shortcliffe Farm, Ingleberry Road - Locally Listed
Originally a Farm. Now a Private House, apparently combining original Farmhouse with attached ‘terrace’ of workers Cottages. Outbuildings demolished. Late C18 in origin but much altered. Vernacular/Georgian styling. Farmhouse - red brick. Cottages - random Mountsorell Granite. Slate pitched roofs. Rectangular brick gable and ridge stacks. Generally, Georgian style sash windows.
Charnwood Forest Canal Tunnel, Off Ashby Road - Locally Listed
Canal Tunnel on Charnwood Forest Canal. Perhaps originally 2 tunnels but only one remains. Built Late C18 for the Leicester Navigation Company to facilitate transport of coal from West Charnwood to Loughborough. William Jessop, Surveyor. Waterway designed as a contour canal between Thringstone and Nanpantan. Each terminus linked respectively to coalfield and Soar Navigation by horse drawn tramway ((to avoid expensive locks).
Tunnel of red brick barrel vault construction. Brick on end voussoirs at each opening. Granite rubble bed to waterway with built up brick towpaths. Canal overwhelmed c1799 by dam collapse at Blackbrook Resevoir. Repaired c1801 but soon abandoned when transhipment of coal between barges and tramway proved too costly. Tunnel later adapted to accommodate bridging by Charnwood Forest Railway c1881-83 (Derby Road, Loughborough to Coalville). Line closed under Beeching plan Dec 1963. Also circular brick drain feeding water from Blackbrook Reservoir.