Charnwood Borough Council - Leading in Leicestershire

Descriptions are given below for the following buildings in Sileby. In general the buildings are in the parish of Sileby. 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
13 and 15, Barrow Road (north side) - Grade II
27 (Free Trade Inn Public House), Cossington Road (east side) - Grade II
35 and 37, Cossington Road (east side) - Grade II
Church of St Mary, High Street (west side) - Grade II*
The Maltings, High Street - Grade II
10 and ‘Poundstretcher’, High Street (west side) - Grade II
7, King Street (north side) - Grade II
33, Little Church Lane (west side) - Grade II
35, Little Church Lane (west side) - Grade II
Quebec House Farmhouse, Seagrave Road (north side) - Grade II
Barn and 2 Outbuildings at Quebec House Farm, Seagrave Road (north side) - Grade II
War Memorial at Sileby Memorial Park, Seagrave Road (north side) - Grade II
Locally Listed Buildings
238, Barrow Road - Locally Listed
Cemetery Chapels, Cemetery Road - Locally Listed
Sileby Mill & Footbridge, Mountsorrel Lane - Locally Listed
St Gregory’s Church, The Banks - Locally Listed

13 and 15, Barrow Road (north side) - Grade II
House and consulting rooms/office, formerly perhaps farmhouse. Dated 1789. Red brick and Welsh slate roof with brick end stacks, that to right truncated. Two storeys of three 2/2 sash windows. On ground floor, from left, a 4 panelled door, 2/2 sash, 4 panelled door in perhaps the original doorcase with a pilaster either side. Immediately to right a c1900 shop window whose cornice continues over the doorcase. To right a further c1900 shop window. Over the left centre door a slate tablet inscribed ‘D.S.S.1789’ and a County fire mark. Two storey wing to rear.
27 (Free Trade Inn Public House), Cossington Road (east side) - Grade II
Public House, late C16/C17. Timber framing with granite rubble stone plinth painted black, and whitewashed brick nogging, and thatch roof with rebuilt brick left ridge and right end stacks. 1½ storeys of three 3 light leaded casements. Door towards right. Two 2 light eyebrow dormers over. Wall posts divide the facade into four bays with square panels in the two bays to right. Some braces. On left end a tie beam truss with collar and braces. Door with 3 light casement in gable. On right end a similar truss with 2 light in gable. C20 wings to rear. Chamfered spine beam and inglenook inside.
35 and 37, Cossington Road (east side) - Grade II
Farmhouse, now two dwellings, later C18. Red brick with granite rubble stone and moulded brick plinth, brick band and eaves and Welsh slate front roof (Swithland slate rear), with brick central ridge and right end stacks. Brick coped gables. 2½ storeys of three 8/2 sash windows. On ground floor from left, a 2 light horizontal sliding sash with top lights, door, similar 2 light and a 2 light window, now fixed except for opening right top light. On right end granite rubble stone ground floor with door and two 1 light windows and further attic light 1 light. Lean-to and three 2 light dormers to rear.
Church of St Mary, High Street (west side) - Grade II*
Church, C13-C15, restored C19. Ashlar and granite rubble stone with parapetted roofs. Plinth, stone dressings and stepped buttresses mostly with gargoyles. Tracery mostly restored. W tower, nave, aisles, chancel, chancel chapels and S porch. Tower of 3 stages, ashlar to W, of C14/C15 with clasping buttresses and SW stair. Many moulded W doorway with fleurons in arch and renewed blank quatrefoils in spandrels over, 3 light W window with perp tracery, 2 light flat topped window over, 4 paired 2 light bell openings with battlemented transoms, quatrefoiled lozenge frieze, battlements, gargoyles and shafted and crocketted pinnacles. Clock face to E (in centre of bell opening) and to N. Inside are arches to aisles and tall nave arch, all double chamfered on semi circular responds. Late C13 N arcade of 3 bays (E wider) with many moulded arches on quatrefoil piers. Hoodmould. Nail head and dog tooth decoration. C1300 3 bay S arcade with double chamfered arches on circular piers. Perp clerestory with four 3 light windows either side. Restored 4 bay low pitch cranked tie beam roof, wall posts and curved braces from stone carved head corbels with wooden figures over. Carved bosses. N aisle has N doorway, W window with intersected tracery, 3 N windows with curvilinear and reticulated tracery and double chamfered arch on octagonal responds into N chancel chapel, now organ chamber. Here N window with perp tracery and NE window with curvilinear tracery. Double chamfered chancel arch with hoodmould and grotesque animal stops. Similar arches to chancel chapels, curving and semi circular responds. On N wall of chancel tomb recess with nail head decoration, small N door, archway to former rood, N window and two S windows with curvilinear tracery. Similar E window with C19 mosaic reredos below. Tiled floor, probably Minton. C19 three bay low pitch roof. Outside, the chancel has crocketed pinnacles and finial on E end gable. S chancel chapel has SE window with curvilinear tracery and two S windows with reticulated tracery and piscina with ogee arch. In S aisle four windows with curvilinear tracery. Many moulded S doorway arch with double shafts each side. Two storey S porch with battlemented parapet and many moulded arch to doorway with circular responds. Window over and to either side of porch. C12/C13 front, wall monument in coloured marble to Katherine Aynesworth, 1807, by Shenton, Hull and Pollard of Leicester, wall monument of 1886 to former Vicar, Georgian Royal Arms, painted on canvas, over chancel arch, and brass lectern, a memorial of 1929, and resited lead inscription tablet of 1727. Pevsner.
The Maltings, High Street - Grade II
Former brewery, empty at the time of inspection. c.1860 with additions of 1884 and the early C20. Built for William Sharpe. Red brick with moulded brick and stone dressings and Welsh slate roof coverings, replaced in some areas with C20 corrugated sheeting.
PLAN: T-shaped complex with tower brewery and fermentation building forming the central range, and a linked range of floor maltings, malt kiln, Union Room and offices to the north-east.
EXTERIORS: The TOWER BREWERY, incorporating the former ENGINE ROOM and attached FERMENTATION ROOMS forms the centrepiece of the complex. The brewery tower is square on plan, and of 4 storeys and attics with an attached tall 3-storeyed fermentation building to the right. The tower has shallow segmental arch-headed windows to its gabled front elevation, floors 2, 3 and 4 with paired windows, the ground floor with a taller window to the right, and a doorway set at a lower level to the left.
All of the window frames are 3 over 3 pane sashes with curved heads. The attic floor has an opening to the centre of the gable apex with a boarded shutter. To the centre of the ridge, is a decorative ventilation louvre with shallow pyramidal roof. Between floors 3 and 4 and floor 4 and the attic are dark painted bands, the lower with white lettering which reads 'THE MALTINGS'. The left side elevation has 2 ground floor windows, a first floor taking-in door set below a gable hoist canopy carried on angled struts rising from wall corbels. Above the canopy are 2 further openings, that to the attic floor blocked.
To the rear, at the south-west corner is an integral truncated tapered brick chimney to the former engine room. Fermentation rooms attached to right of tower of 4 bays with altered central ground floor area incorporating C20 metal stair. Ground, first and second floors retain arch-headed window openings, some blocked. Enlarged upper floor windows have flat heads set just below dentilled eaves course. Rear elevation now obscured by C20 concrete additions.
FLOOR MALTINGS with attached MALT KILN at the south-west end of 3 storeys and attics above cellars. The kiln has a tall pyramidal roof with an apex louvre and shallow arch-headed windows to the upper floor of its 3 exposed elevations. Lower openings have been altered and enlarged. The floor maltings is of 3 storeys above cellars and 7 bays, with low, shallow arch-headed openings to the front and rear walls to ventilate the malting floors. The openings have some surviving multi-pane cast iron frames with opening lights.
To the north-east, the attached UNION ROOM and OFFICES, the Union Room a 5-bay, 2 storied building with attic and basement levels. The north-west elevation has basement, ground and first floor window openings, those to the upper 2 floors with segmental arched heads and 3 over 3 pane sash windows. To the centre of the upper floor is a taking-in doorway, and above this, a further doorway set within a gabled dormer. A decorative stepped eaves band is returned at both gable ends. The gable ends have single windows to the gable apexes, the gable to the street elevation additionally with 3 first floor windows. The offices are contained within a triple gabled single-storied projection from the northeastern gable of the Union Room onto the street frontage. The office range has a blind, keyed semicircular arch to each gable apex, below which are inserted C20 shop display windows.
INTERIORS: All interiors are now devoid of original fixtures and fittings, but all retain original working floors. The malt kiln retains an original roof structure, and the floors within the maltings retain tile floor coverings and a central arcade of cast-iron columns. At the north-east end of the floor maltings, the first floor is supported by a web of flanged metal beams within which are set projecting circular plates. It seems likely that this area housed the barley steep, where grain was soaked prior to spreading on the malting floors. Within the Union Room, tall cast iron columns support timber cross beams, some with metal plates to their lower faces. The roof structure is designed to create an open attic floor, with an underboarded 4 purlin roof carried on wide collar beam trusses, with low angle-braced posts at the junction of the principal rafters and the collar beams. The latter support strutted king posts, above which the roof is further stiffened on both sides by longitudinal timber plates notched over the collar beams, which support diagonal braces rising to the uppermost tier of purlins. The Union Room cellar ceiling is formed from shallow brick jack arches supported on low cast-iron columns.
HISTORY: The complex is thought to have been developed in the 1860's when William Sharpe established a small brewery to the rear of the Duke of York public house on the High Street in Sileby.
The brewery was enlarged in the 1880s with the addition of the floor maltings and the Union Room, equipped, according to sale details of 1906 with `6 sets of unions with attemporators in casks and boxes on the Burton principle' The Burton principle was a reference to a recirculating fermentation system known as the Burton Union, practised in Burton-upon-Trent breweries from the 1830s. The Union system consisted of a row of casks connected to a common trough by way of a series of pipes. The purpose of the Union system was to allow excess yeast foam to be expelled from the casks. Any expelled beer could be separated from the wasted yeast, allowing it to flow back into the casks to continue fermentation.
The brewery remained operational until the late 1920s, but the floor maltings remained in use for a longer period. The 1906 sale plan and details depict the fully developed brewery complex with stabling, bottling plant, cooperage and storage buildings as well as the main process buildings which survive today.
SOURCES: Unpublished sale particulars for the Sileby Brewery, with plans and conditions of sale, 1906.
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION The former brewery now known as The Maltings at Sileby is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
It is a nationally-rare surviving example of a small-scale mid-C19 brewery with an integral floor maltings.
It retains well-preserved examples of the key process buildings associated with the brewing process.
The individual buildings are distinctive in character and appearance, and retain significant interior detail associated with their individual functions within the brewing process.
The buildings form a coherent ensemble of attached and functionally related buildings which also share common external architectural detailing.
10 and ‘Poundstretcher’, High Street (west side) - Grade II
House and shop, late C17/C18. Red brick, front whitewashed, with fragment of timber framing, granite rubble stone plinth in part, and Welsh slate roof hipped to left, with brick rear ridge and side stacks. Nogged eaves in part. Two storeys of two 8/8 sash windows. On ground floor from left, 8/8 sash with camber lintel, wide mid C20 shop front with glazed door, and part barred alley door. Towards left on first floor part of a tie beam truss is visible with fragments of wall posts below where originally there was a gable. Two storey C19 wing to rear. Inside are chamfered ceiling beams and said to be tie beam trusses in the roof. Formerly the Plough Inn.
7, King Street (north side) - Grade II
House, possible C18 with earlier origins. Red brick with granite rubble stone plinth and walling on left end and rear wing, brick band and eaves and C20 concrete tile roof with rendered end stacks. T plan, wing extending to rear. Brick coped gables. Two storeys of three 8/8 sash windows (2 further windows blocked). On ground floor a similar 8/8 sash either side central doorway with 6 panelled door and overlight with glazing bars. Stone sills and slightly cambered gauged brick lintels. Two storey wing and one storey extension to rear.
33, Little Church Lane (west side) - Grade II
House, late C16/C17, altered. Whitewashed brick with granite rubble stone plinth, brick band, and fragments of timber framing and slate grey plain tile roof with brick end stacks. Two storeys of two 2 light casements. On ground floor, from left, a late C19 doorcase with hood and part glazed door, 3 light casement and C20 bow window. Two wall posts run from plinth to eaves dividing the facade approximately into thirds. Small section of close studding to rear. Some ceiling beams inside.
35, Little Church Lane (west side) - Grade II
House, early C18. Whitewashed brick with granite rubble stone plinth, brick band and brick eaves nogged in part, and Swithland slate roof with brick left ridge and right front stacks. 2½ storeys of a 2 light and a 3 light casement. On ground floor, from left, a carriage entrance, small 1 light casement, 2 light casement and French window. The brick band curves up over the two latter windows. An 8 pane dormer on the roof. Two storey wing to rear with Welsh slate, Swithland slate and pantile roofs. Inglenook fireplace and chamfered beams inside.
Quebec House Farmhouse, Seagrave Road (north side) - Grade II
House, dated 1761. Red brick with granite rubble stone plinth, brick band and moulded eaves and Swithland slate roof with brick end stacks. Coped shouldered gables. T plan, wing extending to rear. Two storeys of 3 windows, a central round arched window, 2 light with top lights, now fixed, and either side a Venetian window, 4 light casement, with the centre 2 lights with top lights under a round arched head. Top lights have glazing bars but the renewed casements do not. On ground floor a similar Venetian window either side a central door with very narrow hood, door with 6 vertical panels and fanlight with square glazing bars. To rear a lean-to and a 2 storey wing with slate tablet inscribed ‘1761’ and a lower 2 storey wing. Pevsner.
Barn and 2 Outbuildings at Quebec House Farm, Seagrave Road (north side) - Grade II
Barn and two outbuildings, later C18 and early C19. Red brick with granite rubble stone plinth and Swithland slate roof part hipped, part with coped gables. These items stand to the right of Quebec House Farmhouse (q.v.), forming three sides of a partly cobbled yard of which the house is the fourth. The barn and first outbuilding are on L plan, barn facing with central door and four ventilation diamonds either side. On right projecting forward the outbuilding of two storeys of three 2 light casements. Two doors and 3 part boarded windows below. Cambered lintels. Weathervane on roof. Three iron tie rods with the ends forming the initials P.F.A. Second outbuilding on L plan, of one storey, completes yard.
War Memorial at Sileby Memorial Park, Seagrave Road (north side) - Grade II
War memorial, c1920, Stone. The memorial is a pedestal with a wide slightly tapering block above, the summit with a cornice and just below a wreath carved in the stone. The whole is c4m high with the names of the fallen in both World Wars inscribed on slate plaques. From either end low walls curve forward to piers on the inner sides of which are volutes and pieces of low walling. Between these are three wide convex steps.
238, Barrow Road - Locally Listed
Private House. Early C20. Edwardian, combining elements of Baroque, Neoclassical and Domestic Revival styling. Red brick with stone string courses. Slate hipped roof with decorative finials and terra cotta ridge. Flat roofed dormer in each hip. 2 squat gable stacks, possibly remodelled and reduced. Rectangular plan. 3 bays to main elevation with 5 sided storey height lead clad pitched roof bay windows flanking stone entrance bay with hipped roof. Upper openings with stone surrounds and casement windows.
Cemetery Chapels, Cemetery Road - Locally Listed
Cemetery Chapels. Mid/late C19, First Pointed Gothic Revival. Austere red brick with stone capped butresses. Slate pitched roof, decorative terra cotta ridge and upstanding stone capped gables. Paired dormer lights to external face of each pitched roof.
Sileby Mill & Footbridge, Mountsorrel Lane - Locally Listed
Originally a Corn Mill. Perhaps C18 in origin but subsequently much altered. Milling ceased in the 1890s. Buildings then adapted to the manufacture of leather board used for insoles in the shoe industry. Production ceased 1936. Now a marina, associated workshops and other small businesses. Mellow red brick Slate pitched roofs.
St Gregory’s Church, The Banks - Locally Listed
Roman Catholic Church. Mid/Late C19, First Pointed Gothic Revival. Austere red brick with blue brick string courses and buttresses. Steep slate pitched roof with upstanding gables and blue brick chamfered coping.