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Descriptions are given below for the following buildings in Swithland. In general the buildings are in the parish of Swithland. 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.

81 and 83, Main Street (north side) - Grade II
Two cottages of 1842. Granite rubble stone with plinth and buff brick dressings including shouldered coped gables with kneelers. Swithland slate roof with brown brick central ridge and rear wing stacks. Irregular composition with projecting gable to right. Two storeys of casements, some with original iron lattice. No. 81 to left has gabled porch with Tudor arch and hoodmould and 1842 in stone shield over. 1 light casement to right with hoodmould. Left side a similar 2 light both floors with C20 canopied door to left and 1 light. C20 outshut to left on rear with 2 light casement. No.83 to right in projecting gable has 4 light canted bay with iron lattice and hipped slate roof and 2 light casement with hoodmould and cambered lintel above. On right side a 1 light casement, then 1983 wing projecting right. Granite rubble stone with buff brick dressings. 1 light, repositioned door surround and 2 light window.
123 and 125, Main Street (north side) - Grade II
Cottage of 1850, now 2. Slate rubble stone with plinth, and buff brick dressings and eaves cornice, and Swithland slate roof with similar brick central ridge and end projecting stacks. Two storeys of three 2 light leaded casements and central door. Stone dated 1850 with L and Earl’s coronet. C20 one storey extension on left end with door and casements and two 2 light casements in gable. Similar slight extensions on right end with two 3 light casements and two 2 light casements in gable.
127, Main Street (north side) - Grade II
Cottage of c1850. Slate and granite rubble stone with plinth and buff brick dressings and Swithland slate roof with left projecting and rear wing end stacks. Buff brick eaves cornice and shouldered coped gables, the cornice following round to form kneelers. Gable projects from narrow front and wing of full width projects rear. Two storeys of leaded light casements. Gable has 1 light casements to side on ground floor and 3 light casement with 2 light casement over on front. Hoodmoulds. On right side a gabled porch with Tudor arch, glazed door and stone with Earl’s coronet over. A 2 light casement above. Projecting right a C20 one storey extension with door, 1 light casement and 3 light casement on end.
137, Main Street (north side) - Grade II
Cottage of 1718. Slate and granite rubble stone with Swithland slate roof and red brick end stacks, upper part rebuilt. 1½ storeys of two 2 light windows of horizontal sliding sashes. Brick cambered lintels below and two hipped dormers over. 2 light casement with top lights on left end and door on right end. Purlins of single purlin roof showing in gables. 2 light with horizontal sliding sash and C20 one storey extension on rear. Small slate tablet inscribed JPE 1718 on front.
St Leonards C of E School House, Main Street (north side) - Grade II
School and house of early C19, enlarged 1843. Red brick with granite and slate rubble stone on left end and rear. Swithland slate roof with coped brick gables and ridge stack centre left. Three further stacks to rear. Long one storey range in Tudor style of four 2 light casements with hoodmoulds either side of coped gabled projecting porch. Arch with carved Griffin crest and 1843 in tablet over. 1 light in sides. House to left and school to right. One storey extension on right end with 1 light to front and door with 1 light either side and hoodmoulds over on end. Extension and C20 one storey extensions to rear.
Gazebo 173 on Corner of Garden, Main Street (north side) - Grade II
Gazebo or lock up probably of C18. Granite and slate rubble stone with pointed Swithland slate roof. Small circular tower of 2 storeys. Door with slate lintel and brick surround in base and door, small 1 light openings and tiny slits above. Generally said locally to be a lock-up, but as there is a pair at opposite ends of site of Old Swithland Hall, it is more likely that they are folly boundary towers or gazebos.
Gazebo, Walls, Outhouse Hall Farm, Main Street (north side) - Grade II
Gazebo, or lock-up, and walls probably of C18 with C19 outhouse. Gazebo of granite and slate rubble stone with pointed Swithland slate roof. Small circular tower of two storeys. Door in base and door, small 1 light openings and tiny slits above. Generally said locally to be a lock-up but as there is a pair at opposite ends of site of Old Swithland Hall, it is more likely that they are folly boundary towers or gazebos. Two granite and slate rubble stone walls c3m high extend from gazebo at right angles to each other to stable (listed separately) and barn of 1750 (listed separately). Attached to wall near this barn is an outhouse with brick piers and Swithland slate roof.
Barn (1749) at Hall Farm, Main Street (north side) - Grade II
Barn of 1749. Granite and slate rubble stone plinth and end walls, and red brick side walls with black headers used decoratively. Brick lining to end walls. Moulded brick cornice and Swithland slate roof. Stands to left of farm entrance, gable facing. Five bays of roughly double storey height, with tie and collar beam truss roof with angle struts. Double purlins clasp jointed. Brick pilasters support tie beams. On one beam is cared ‘Sir Joseph Danvers, Baronet, 1749’. Various openings and ventilation loops in ends and sides with doors opposite each other halfway down sides. Doors of large stable type with cambered lintels. Bricked floor. A barn of fine quality and almost unaltered.
Barn (1750) at Hall Farm, Main Street (north side) - Grade II
Barn of 1750. Granite and slate rubble stone plinth and exterior walls, and red brick lined. Brick cambered lintels with black headers used decoratively. Moulded brick cornice and Swithland slate roof. Stands to right of farm entrance, gable facing. Four bays of two storeys, one of the ground floor ceiling beams carved with 1750. Double purlin roof with arched braces rising to collars. Curved wind braces. Wooden steps and 1st floor partitioning possibly original. Cobbled floor. Various openings, some blocked. Double doors to rear with two blocked openings above. 2 light window with cambered lintel in front gable. A barn of fine quality and almost unaltered.
Stable at Hall Farm, Main Street (north side) - Grade II
Stable of c1750. Granite and slate rubble stone with brick dressings, moulded brick gable cornice and Swithland slate roof with two louvres. Stands behind and at right angles to barn of 1749 (separately listed). Single storey and loft of 8 bays: tie and collar beam truss roof with curved principals and double purlins. Along the front a C20 outshut type extension with concrete tile roof forming open piggery. Four stable doors and other openings to rear. On right end a large blocked doorway with further door above. Three small openings on left end. Included for group value with barns, gazebo and walls.
227 (Hall Farmhouse), Main Street (north side) - Grade II
House, probably of early C18 origin, rebuilt early C19. Ground floor of rubble stone in part, otherwise brick, all whitewashed. Brick band in part and brick nogged eaves with hipped roof of C20 tiles. Two rebuilt symmetrical ridge stacks. Square plan of two storeys of three 3 light casements, the lower with top lights. Cambered lintels. Central glazed double doors with C20 veranda along front. Carved stone panel above containing Coat of Arms of Danvers family. Left side similar with 2 light casement above central entrance door. Casements on right side and door, 2 light casement and 2 truncated stacks to rear.
36 and 38, Main Street (south side) - Grade II
Cottages of C18 incorporating former Methodist Chapel of 1856, now two dwellings. Long range gable facing with wing to left at rear. Granite and slate rubble stone partly rendered, with Swithland slate roofs to former chapel nearest road, rear wing, and outshuts on right side, otherwise thatch. Brick ridge and end stacks. Former chapel has central door with overlight and a mullion and transom window either side. Buff brick dressings and cambered lintels. Dated 1856 on small stone over door. Range behind of 1½ storeys three 2 light renewed casements on left side with three doors and two 3 light casements below. C20 small stair turret projects forward from left wing. On right side three renewed 4 light eyebrow dormers, with 2 outshuts, door and 2 light window below. 2 light window both floors on right side of chapel. Chamfered beams with inglenook and hood inside.
78 (The White House), Main Street (south side) - Grade II
House of C18 possibly with earlier core. Whitewashed rendering with Swithland slate roof and gabled cross wings with two brick ridge stacks. Two storeys of 3 sashes, 6/6 both floors left and right with 3/6 over central doorcase. Pilasters with small canopy and door with fanlight. On right end 3 light casement both floors. Door, casements and C20 porch to rear. Chamfered beams and inglenook inside.
106, Main Street (south side) - Grade II
Cottage of C18 with fenestration of early C19. Slate and granite rubble stone, partly rendered, with Swithland slate roof and red brick end stacks. Two storeys of two 3 light horizontal sashes. Central door with overlight. Buff brick dressings overall with cambered lintels to ground floor. Door, casements and two storey C19 extension to rear. Beams inside, one with ogee stopping to chamfer. Long outhouse extending from left end.
112 (Longlands Farmhouse), Main Street - Grade II
house of c1800. Long range of slate and granite rubble stone, partly rendered, with Swithland slate roof and two brick ridge stacks. Two storeys. Seven 2 and 3 light horizontal sliding sashes to 1st floor, three 3 light and a 1 light casement below. Door with overlight. Brick dressings and cambered lintels with mostly blue brick sills to ground floor. C20 windows on right end.
118, 120 and 122, Main Street (south side) - Grade II
Long range of three cottages of c1800. Slate and granite rubble stone with brick eaves, Swithland slate roof and four brick ridge, a rear right end and rear centre stacks. Two storeys of ten 3 light casements, three doors. Cambered lintels, another 1 light ground floor to No. 120. No. 122 has door and 3 light casement under. Swithland slate canopy. No 118 has shutters to ground floor. Small C20 extension on rear of left end, C20 gabled extension centre rear, and two 1 storey outbuildings extend from right end.
124 (Pit Close Cottage), Main Street (south side) - Grade II
Cottage of C17. Long range of whitewashed plastered rubble stone with thatch roof and red brick central ridge and end stacks. 1½ storeys of casements, two 2 light eyebrow dormers with 3 light, door and thatched gabled porch, and two 3 lights below. One storey thatched extension on left end with 3 light. Upper 2 light on right end. Four 2 light eyebrow dormers and thatched outshut to rear. C19 pump with handle to right of front door.
132 and 134, Main Street (south side) - Grade II
Pair of cottages of c1860. Slate and granite rubble stone on same and dressed stone plinth, with stone sills and lintels and buff brick dressings. Stone hoodmoulds to ground floor. Swithland slate roof with red brick central ridge and end stacks. Two storeys of four 2 light casements, small gables above. Door, 2 light casement, 2 light casement, door, with further 2 light casement to right below.
136 and 138, Main Street (south side) - Grade II
Pair of cottages of C18, altered early C19. Slate and granite rubble stone with Swithland slate roof and red brick central ridge and left end stacks. Brick dressings. 1½ storeys of two 2 light diamond paned casements and 2 doors with 3 pointed arch panels. Two similar 2 light hipped dormers. Outshut on left end with two 2 light casements on end. One storey C20 extension on right end with similar 2 light casement to front and 2 and 3 light casements on end.
140 and 142, Main Street (south side) - Grade II
Cottage, formerly pair, of c1840. Slate and granite rubble stone with plinth, grey buff brick dressings and eaves cornice. Swithland slate roof with 2 grey brick central ridge stacks. Two storeys of three 2 light diamond paned casements with hoodmoulds on ground floor. A door on either side of windows with three pointed arch panels. Cambered lintels. Painted barge boards on gable ends. Extension and outshut to rear.
144, Main Street (south side) - Grade II
Cottage of c1840. Slate and granite rubble stone with red brick dressings and thatch roof with red brick end stacks. 1½ storeys of two 2 light diamond paned casements. Two dormers half below eaves. Cambered lintels. Tudor hoodmoulds to ground floor. Central door with three pointed arch panels and thatched gabled hood over. C20 extension with slate hung walls, Swithland slate roof and 2 light window on end.
146, Main Street (south side) - Grade II
Cottage of 1845. Granite and slate rubble stone with plinth, blue brick dressings and Swithland slate roof with blue brick end stacks. Central gabled porch with Tudor arch. Blue brick shouldered coped gables overall. Two storeys of two 2 light diamond paned casements with cambered lintels and Tudor hoodmoulds. Symmetrical one storey wings on either end with similar gables. 3 light casement on left, ridge louvre on right wing. G.J.D.B.D. 1845 on tablet over door.
160 (Rose Cottage), Main Street (south side) - Grade II
Cottage of early C19. Slate and granite rubble stone, red brick right gable, with Swithland slate roof and red brick end stacks. Two storeys of two 3 light casements with brick cambered lintels. C20 central door with slated hood. On left end outshut with door and 2 light casements above. On right end a one storey extension with 4 light casement. A lower extension further right with garage doors.
Church of St Leonard, Main Street - Grade II*
Church of C13 and later. Granite and slate rubble stone with Swithland slate roof. W tower of 3 stages, nave, N porch, S aisle with E porch, and chancel. Lower part of tower C13, upper Perp with 2 W clasping buttresses, small C19 W door, original 1 light above, several slits, 4 restored 2 light bell openings and restored crocketted pinnacles and battlements. Two storey C19 stair turret on S side. Nave has C19 N porch and C13 arcades originally similar but N, now blocked, was heightened later in Century. NW arch remains similar to S arcade. Now blocked it leads to N porch. Arcades of 4 bays, S has circular piers and abaci supporting double chamfered arches. 3 bull’s eyes windows above. ½ bull’s eye remains abutting first of higher N arcade blocked arches. These similar to S. Upper part of nave C16/C17 timber framing in 4 bays. Wall pieces and curved braces from renewed stone corbels support collar and cranked tie beam trusses with lower angle struts. Curved wind braces to single purlins. Heavily restored chancel. Arch double chamfered, one dying into corbels. Two C19 flat headed 2 lights either side with C19 E window of geometric type tracery. Stained glass of 1867. Restored, partly renewed, single purlin roof with wall pieces and curved braces supporting collar beams, thence king struts. Wrought iron alter rail. S aisle built as Danvers Chapel in 1727. Four bay double purlin king post tie beam truss roof with angle struts to purlins (upper from king post). Date on E tie beam. C19 E porch. Three C19 S windows of geometric type tracery. Stained glass of 1864 (Heygate Memorial) in SSW, otherwise 2 heraldic glass lunettes, one dated 1849. One C18 half round window remains with W window blocked. Six hatchments and helmet, sword and two metal gauntlets. C17 and C18 slate and brass monuments and pedigree of Danvers-Butler family, including outstanding example of mid C18 to children to Sir John Danvers, ‘a tour de force of the slate workers’ (Pevsner). Mid C15 brass; organ originally by John Snetzler, of London, 1765, with Gothic pinnacled front; C18 white marble front; remains of possibly C17 carving in some pew backs. On N wall C18 wall monument and two C19 curvilinear type tracery windows. Triple chamfered W arch with small round arched 1 light above and C19 stained glass in small W window.
Danvers Tomb at Church of St Leonard, Main Street (south side) - Grade II*
Large table tomb of 1745, by John Hind. Slate with brass inscriptions and wrought iron railings with alternating straight and spear head finials and urn corners. E of E end of Church. To Sir John and Lady Danvers and a third outside churchyard and so that Sir John’s dog could be buried with him. Block shaped sarcophagus of the finest quality with two reliefs illustrating accompanying texts: ‘When you I sailed to India, east and west, But aged in this port must lye at rest’: a ship and a church under a hill; and ‘Be cheerful, O man, and labour to live, The merciful God a blessing will give:’ ploughing and building. Swithland with its slate pits was the centre of the slate engraving craft and the tombstone trade flourished in the C18 and C19. The Hind family was prominent and is commemorated in further table tombs in the churchyard.
hall Head Stone at Church of St Leonard, Main Street (south side) - Grade II
Headstone of 1673. Small Swithland slate headstone with carved inscription to Dorathie Hall. Stands S of blocked S door of S aisle of Church. ‘One of the earliest preserved. Swithland was the home of the slate engraving craft’. (Pevsner).
Lychgate at Church of St Leonard, Main Street (south side) - Grade II
Lych-gate of early C20. Granite and slate rubble stone, dressed stone, timber framing and Swithland slate roof. Four piers support posts at corners of open roof, gable facing. Wall with lamp between piers to right and seat to left. Pair of wooden gates between front piers. Prominent timber pegs a feature. Included for group value with Church and Danvers tomb.
Mountsorrel Cross , Swithland Park, Main Street (south side) - Grade I Scheduled Ancient Monument
Village market cross of medieval period. Fine stone cross originally standing in the Main Street at Mountsorrel, removed here late C18. Base consists of five round steps with a square socket stone carved with bats with their wings extended at the corners. Tall monolithic shaft carved with heads and devices. Topstone formed of openwork of upright flat hexagonal shape with wide side and central bar, perhaps representing a weaver’s shuttle. The stone is carved with little people and grotesque heads. The top has a broken off Gothic crocket. A charter to hold a market at Mountsorrel was granted by Edward I in 1292. Scheduled ancient monument.
Swithland Hall, Main Street (south side) - Grade II
Mansion partially completed by 1834 and finished by 1852. Designed by James Pennethorne for G J Danvers-Butler, later Earl of Lanesborough. Granite and slate rubble stone and brick wholly stuccoed and painted, with Swithland slate roofs behind a parapet. Symmetrical stuccoed chimney stacks with flues grouped in 2, 3 and 4’s. A central block and two wings in a restrained neo-classical style with banded rustication to ground floor, 1st floor sill band and dentilled cornice. Two storeys, with in part a sunken basement, of mostly 6/6 or tripartite sashes. Entrance front has one storey porch with four paired Greek Doric fluted columns up four stone steps. Within a two leaved door with side lights and long overlight in four panels with astragals. To either side a pedimented section with scroll headed tripartite below and Grecian oriel above with sash beyond. Wings either side then project forwards: three sashes both floors to sides and ends with one blank either side. On ends two low curving walls masking basements. On outer sides various sashes and entrances to basements. Central block of garden front projects forward, 1-3-1, with central canted bay carried upwards to 2nd storey, with a large carved tablet of the Danvers-Butler arms in the centre. Sashes either side and below with ground floor central sash having partly glazed doors approached by two stone steps. Urn on top of this sections roof. Further canted bays on the ends of the block: one to right end and two to left. Further sashes on rear of wings. Projecting from that to right a one storey flat roofed ballroom with central canted bay. Inside an entrance vestibule with semi circular ends leads to staircase hall with oak staircase of c1834. Turned and fluted oak balustrade. Good decoration of room to left of vestibule probably of same date. Elsewhere simple fireplaces, cornices and all original doors. 1852 on wing rainwater heads.
Swithland Hall Lodge, Main Street (south side) - Grade II
Lodge of 1847. Rusticated granite ashlar in Tudor style with dressed stone quoins and dressings and Swithland slate roof with part granite, part stucco, stack on gable roof to right. 1½ storeys with projecting gable facing right. Ground floor to left consists of 2 arched arcade with third arch on left side. Stone cartouche with 1847 above front arcade. Entrance door to right within. Front of gable has canted bay with stone mullions and diamond panes. Carved stone panel with Danvers-Butler arms over. Three 1 light windows with hoodmoulds on right end. Two similar 2 light windows on left end. 2 light window and C20 one storey extension to rear.
Gate Pier and Gates at Swithland Lodge, Main Street (south side) - Grade II
Gate piers and gates of mid C19. Rusticated granite ashlar and wrought iron Gothic style gates. Four piers and low side walls (once with railings) on a curving plan. Central pair support two gates to Swithland Hall drive. Ensemble forms a group with the lodge.
K6 Telephone Kiosk, Main Street (north side) - Grade II
Telephone kiosk. Type K6. Designed 1935 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. Made by various contractors. Cast iron. Square kiosk with domed roof. Unperforated crowns to top panels and margin glazing to windows and door.

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