Charnwood Borough Council - Leading in Leicestershire

Descriptions are given below for the following buildings in South Croxton. In general the buildings are in the parish of South Croxton. 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
Bell Dip Farmhouse, Baggrave Lane - Grade II
Church of St John the Baptist, Main Street (north side) - Grade II* - Moated site north of the church is a Scheduled Ancient Monument
Hill Top Farmhouse, Main Street (north west side) - Grade II
North Manor Farmhouse, Main Street (north west side) - Grade II
10 (South Manor Farmhouse), Main Street (north west side) - Grade II

Bell Dip Farmhouse, Baggrave Lane - Grade II
Farmhouse, early C19. Brick with plain tiled roof. 2 storeyed. 3 bays, with projecting central gable supported on Ionic columns and pilasters of painted brick, forming porch to doorway with overlight. One window above, blocked but with drop ended brick hoodmould. Decorative diamond panel in gable apex. Outer bays have windows also now blocked but with brick hoodmoulds. Overhanging eaves, gable end stacks: tall brick shafts set diagonally. One additional bay to left, of later date with Swithland slate roof and a single round arched opening to ground floor, and dentilled eaves cornice. Rear range also of later date.
Church of St John the Baptist, Main Street (north side) - Grade II* Moated site north of the church is a Scheduled Ancient Monument
Parish church, mostly C14, and late decorated in style. Ironstone rubble with ashlar dressings throughout. West tower with spire, nave and south aisle, chancel. Tower of large and squared rubble, 3 stages and buttressed, on an ashlar plinth. West window, ogee arched with fleuron, and two mutilated outer shafts and a central shaft between the two trefoiled lights. In the second stage, to the west three trefoiled lights with linking hoodmould, the outer ones blind. Large double tiered light to bell chamber with triple shafts and hoodmould, the lower pair of lights ogee arched, the upper trefoiled, with a decorated lozenge over them. Embattled parapet with cornice frieze partially renewed, and gargoyles. Small recessed spire with two tiers of lucarnes. South door in porch, the lower part of which is probably C14, but rebuilt in C19. The south doorway has a hollow moulded archway with no capitals. Aisle windows are of three trefoiled lights set within simpler intersecting tracery. West window similar but blocked. One large and oddly placed gargoyle in the west wall, and another to east. Buttresses and 2 string courses. Fabric of chancel may be earlier: one round arched priests door with voussoirs and simple intersecting traceried windows. Sill course forms hoodmould of doorway. East window of three lights with intersecting tracery. One single lancet, and two trefoiled lights in square headed opening to north. Coped east gable with cross. North wall of nave is of coursed squared rubble, very tall, and buttressed. Windows set very high, fine reticulated decorated tracery. Blocked north doorway with hoodmould and corbel heads. Inside, nave of 4 bays: the south arcade is late decorated, double chamfered arches with hoodmoulds on slender octagonal columns. West tower arch seems to be earlier: It is very wide, with 4 chamfers, the inner one rising from a shaft, the others from a chamfered respond with linear carved capital. One buttress to its south and fragment of stone rib to north: part of former roof, the steeper pitch of which is visible against the tower wall externally. Nave roof possibly C15: moulded trusses with braces supported on C19 carved wooden angels, and with bosses. Ogee arched piscina with flamelike fleurons and finial, and two aumbreys in south aisle. The chancel arch is very wide, double chamfered on slender shafted responds. Fragment of wall painting to south west. In the chancel, simply turned C17 altar rails, two fragments of old stained glass in east window and a figure of St. John the Baptist, by Kempe, 1896. Norman font, a small round tub with interlaced arcading beneath interlocking circles, on an octagonal base.
Hill Top Farmhouse, Main Street (north west side) - Grade II
Farmhouse, late C18, heightened C19 and possibly incorporating an earlier core. Brick, with Welsh slate roof. L plan, with projecting wing to right. 2 storeyed. Main range has central doorway with cambered brick head, and 3 light casement window left of it. The two right hand windows are renewed. Upper windows are also 3 light casements, and all have cambered brick heads. Much of the upper storey represents a C19 heightening. Partial rubble plinth to rear. Cross wing is externally early C19 though possibly earlier within. Two 3 light casements in the gable end. Gable and axial mid C19 stacks.
North Manor Farmhouse, Main Street (north west side) - Grade II
House, partially C17, altered and with a C19 extension forming a wing, and now a separate dwelling. The old range is brick though there are traces of a timber frame, and has a Swithland slate roof. The C19 wing is also brick with modern concrete tiled roof. Both are two storeyed. The older part has side entry to west and a three light casement window to each floor in this gable. In the apex of the gable, nesting ledges for doves. The east gable has a lower 3 light casement and 2 lights above with wide wood mullion between them. Exposed tie beam and truss above. One gabled dormer to rear, and part of the wall plate and one main post visible. Rubble plinth to rear and a side wall stack, the flue projecting through the roof slope rather than the ridge. Small single storeyed C19 outbuilding. Inside, moulded cross beams and chamfered joists to ground floor. Cambered tie beams and inclined struts to main roof trusses. Upper lime floors. The C19 front wing is of two units with central doorway with cambered brick head and a canted bay to its left on the east side. Two and three light casements above. Gable end stack.
10 (South Manor Farmhouse), Main Street (north west side) - Grade II
House, with exterior largely early C19 but with substantially earlier core. Flemish bond brickwork with Welsh slate roof, on plinth, which is now rendered over but probably of rubble. 2 storeyed, main range of 2 bays, with cross wing. Doorway in inner face of wing contained in elaborately turned timber work porch. The main range has 2 renewed casement windows to ground floor, one of which cuts through an earlier opening with cambered brick head. There is another block segmentally arched opening between them. Three upper 3 light casement windows. One 3 light window to each floor in gable with cambered brick heads. Prominent bargeboards to gable. Gable and axial stacks. C19 parallel range to rear, a tall two storeys with chamfered surround to windows, many of which have heavily latticed panes. Massive spine beams etc., within.