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

11, Barkby Road (north side) - Grade II
House, early C19. Brick with Welsh slate roof. Three storied, three bays with central doorway in moulded wood architrave; consoles support a flat canopy, and are on clustered shafts. Triglyphs and dentils above the overlight. Lower windows are renewed. Upper windows are 16 light sashes to first floor. 12 lights to attic storey, all renewed in original with gauged brick heads. Central window spaces blind. Very narrow in plan. Gable end stacks.
2, Bath Street (north side) - Grade II
House, probably early C18, with possible earlier core, exterior details C20. Facade is rough cast over brick with a plinth and brick is exposed in the side elevation, thatched roof. 1½ storeys, two or three unit plan with rear entry. Facade has renewed C20 fenestration, a single central light and outer 2 light casements. Two upper casements and central stained glass single light, in eyebrow dormers. Axial and right hand gable stacks. Nogged brick string course. One blue brick diaper in gable wall. Very steeply pitched roof. Rear wing brick with thin timber wall plate.
16, Bath Street (north side) - Grade II
House, probably early C17, with later (C19) addition. Timber framed with original brick nogging. Three bays of square panelled timber framing on a granite rubble plinth with a middle rail in the outer upper bays, and arch bracing. Welsh slate roof. Doorway in modern gabled porch in left hand bay, and 2 light casement window in central bay on each floor. Heightened substantially in C19, one C19 bay to left with 4 light casement to ground floor and two single lights above. Stacks on gable ends of original dwelling. More brick nogging to rear. Rear of C19 wing incorporates sill beam and posts of an earlier timber framed structure.
18 Bails Cottage, Bath Street (north side) - Grade II
House, late C18. Brick on cobbled plinth with Welsh slate roof. Two storied, three unit plan, with a 3 light horizontally sliding sash window to each side of the doorway, and an additional 2 light window to the left, the fenestration identical on each floor. Six panelled door in moulded wood case; curved consoles supporting a flat canopy on clustered shafts. Plain brick string course, and eaves cornice. Gable and axial stacks.
17, Bath Street (south side) - Grade II
House, probably with early C18 core. Brick with Welsh slate roof on a plinth. Two storeyed, a three unit plan with two bays to right of doorway, and one left of it each with a 3 light horizontally sliding sash window. Plinth interrupted between the two right hand windows. Panelled door in plain case. Upper windows are also 3 light horizontally sliding sashes. Nogged brick string course. Plain wood eaves cornice left of elevation. One broad axial stack and another on the left hand gable.
2, Brook Street (west side) - Grade II
Small house, early C19. Brick on a plinth, with Swithland slate roof. Two storeyed, two unit plan with central door in tall opening, with overlight in moulded wood architrave and consoles supporting flat canopy. Windows are 16 light sashes, those to ground floor with cambered brick arched heads. Gable end stacks.
3, Brook Street (east side) - Grade II
Cottage, dated 1686. Flemish bond brickwork with blue headers. Welsh slate roof a C19 heightening. Cobble plinth in gable wall. Two storeyed, two unit plan. Doorway slightly off centre, in renewed case, and outer renewed 3 light horizontally sliding sash windows on each floor. Original lower right hand window head visible; of less width, a straight vertical brick head. The original left hand lower window head is also evident, and the right hand limit of its window survives as a straight joint. Elaborately moulded brick string course, with dentils. Dated on a stone with initials N over I.I. This is the earliest dated brick cottage in the County. Gable end stacks.
3 (Chatsley House), Chapel Street (east side) - Grade II
House, late C18. Brick with Swithland slate roof. Three storeyed, three bays, symmetrical facade with central doorway up steps beneath a steep open pediment supported on consoles. The six panelled door has a radial fanlight around which is a scalloped moulded pattern within the pediment. All windows are triple light sashes with gauged brick flat arched heads. Wood eaves cornice. Gable end stacks.
5 (Vine House), Chapel Street (east side) - Grade II
House, late C18. Brick with Swithland slate roof. Three storeys, three bays, a symmetrical facade with central doorway. The six panelled door is within a moulded wood architrave; clustered shafts and consoles with incised decoration support a flat canopy, triglyph pattern above the overlight, moulded decoration below it. Windows to ground and first floors are 16 light sashes; six lights to attic storey. Central spaces blind. All have find quality gauged brick heads with wide splays. Gable end stacks.
19, Chapel Street (east side) - Grade II
House, early C18. Brick on cobble and brick plinth with Swithland slate roof; two storeyed with attic. Main range of two bays and gabled wing to left. Doorway to right of gable, a six panelled door with overlight. Sixteen light sash windows to its right on each floor, and a 4 light sash window above it. All openings have flat arched stone heads. In the wing, a canted bay window of c1900 to ground floor, 16 light sash above, and 8 lights to attic, both with flat arched stone heads. Plain brick eaves cornice. Coping to front and end gables. Rear gable to wing with later wing beyond it. Casement windows to rear elevation.
21, High Street (south side) - Grade II
House, dated 1725, with some later modifications. Brick on cobble plinth with Welsh slate roof. Main part of three storeys and three bays with central doorway; six panelled door with overlight in plain architrave with slightly projecting flat porch canopy. Lower windows are late C19; three lights with small upper panes beneath cambered heads. First floor windows are wood mullions and transoms; four lights, one lower light only opening, with deep and straight flat arched brick heads. Upper storey is a C19 addition with 4 light sash windows. Two additional bays to rights of C19 date with Swithland slate roof and two windows to each floor of late C19 date with small upper panes and cambered heads. Gable end stacks.
33, High Street (south side) - Grade II
Cottage, probably with late C16 core, but restored. Rendered over timber frame and brick on a plinth, thatched roof. 1½ storeys, 3 units, with 1 bay to left of doorway with renewed sash window. Door in slight projection with eyebrow dormer above. 2 further renewed sash windows to right, and in gable walls. Brick coped gables, 2 axial stacks. Inside, 2 pairs of crucks visible, with wind braces. Possibly formerly open to the roof.
57, High Street (south side) - Grade II
House, probably with core of early C17. Rough cast render over a timber frame on a plinth. Thatched roof. 1½ storeys and three unit plan with one bay to right of doorway with a 3 light horizontally sliding sash window. Door in moulded wood architrave. Two 3 light casement windows left of it with small panes and upper central opening light. One 2 light casement beyond and two others in the gable wall. Two pilasters buttresses in the front elevation and two eyebrow dormers with 2 light casement windows. Barge boards to gable. Various stud partitions etc. and chamfered spine beam within. Gable and axial stacks.
59, High Street (south side) - Grade II
House, early C19. Brick with Swithland slate roof. A tall two storey and 4 bays with central pedimented gable containing 4 light sash window to left and a doorway to right: 6 panelled door with radial fanlight beneath an open pediment supported on reeded shafts. All windows are 4 light sashes with gauged brick heads. Wood parapet. Brick sill bands. Gable stacks.
Barn at 59, High Street (south side) - Grade II
Barn, now club premises. Late C18. Brick on cobble stone plinth, with Swithland slate roof. Blocked ground floor central doorway and 4 segmentally arched upper openings, one blocked.
No. 2 The Fox and Hounds Public House, High Street (north side) - Grade II
Public house. Core of late C16 or early c17 and possibly formerly two dwellings. Rough cast render over a possible timber frame. Welsh slate roof. Two storeyed, the facade is angled on the corner of the street, and in the right hand section, a cart entry to the right with doorway and a 2 light casement window left of it. The longer range has a doorway on its right, and a 4 light sash window and paired 4 light sashes left of it. The five upper windows are all 3 light horizontally sliding sashes. Stack on left hand gable and on the angle. Inside the remains of an inglenook and a large chamfered spine beam with roll moulded stop. Reputed to be a cruck framed building.
58, High Street (north side) - Grade II
House, late C18. Brick with Swithland slate roof. Two storeyed, three bays. Symmetrical facade with central doorway, a six panelled door with overlight in an ornate door case; clustered shafts and consoles support a flat canopy. Dentilled and incised decoration around the overlight. Windows are 16 light sashes with broad wood architraves and brick arched heads with no splay. Gable end stacks.
72 (The Thatched Cottage), High Street (north side) - Grade II
House, late C16 or early C17. Rough cast render over timber frame on a plinth. Thatched roof. Of the timber frame just the wall plate and two vertical studs above the door are visible. 1½ storeys, four units, baffle entry plan. The right hand bay with a higher plinth contains one tiny window only. One 3 light casement to right of doorway and an angle in the wall at this point. Two other casements of 2 and 3 lights to left of door which is in a gabled porch. Three 2 light casement windows in eyebrow dormers above. Large axial stacks behind the entry. Brick coped gables.
8, Lower Church Street (east side) - Grade II
Cottage, early C19. Brick with new roof covering. Two storeys, three unit plan with one bay to right of doorway with 2 light horizontally sliding sash windows. Door in plain wood case and two 3 light windows to its left, the inner a horizontally sliding sash, the outer renewed. All lower windows have cambered brick heads. Three upper windows, the central one renewed, the others 3 and 2 light horizontally sliding sashes. Nogged eaves cornice. One axial and two gable end stacks.
10, Lower Church Street (east side) - Grade II
Cottage, early C19. Flemish bond brickwork with yellow headers, and new roof covering. Two storeyed, two unit plan with central doorway: door with incised panels and fanlight with teardrop pattern in moulded wood architrave, clustered shafts and consoles support flat canopy. Windows are of 9 lights on each floor renewed in original openings which have flat arched gauged brick heads. Additional round arched opening to passageway in left of elevation. Gable end stacks.
Church of Saints Peter and Paul, Lower Church Street (east side) - Grade I
Parish church, partially C13, with early C14 and perpendicular work, and externally substantially as restored by Ordish, c1870-80. Pink granite rubble with white limestone dressings. West Tower, nave with clerestory and two aisles, and chancel. Buttressed tower is perpendicular, four stages with west doorway in roll moulded and hollow chamfered ogee archway with outer squared hood mould on large and worn corbel heads, with quatrefoils etc., in the spandrels. The door itself is C19 with blank traceried patterns. Large 3 light geometric traceried light above. Two tiered paired lights to bell chamber. Upper stage is of white ashlar. Quatrefoil frieze below embattled parapet with slender angle pinnacles. South aisle is the work of Ordish, but porch is C14; a shallow coped gable, and buttresses with moulded archway springing from a chamfer with a niche over it. Two tiny windows in its east and west walls with stained glass. The fenestration of the aisle is a heavy geometric style with pointed arched stilted hood moulds, with corbels. Ogee arched doorway to east. Ashlar parapet with masks etc. Tomb recess in south wall; moulded arch with inner ogee, early C14. Clerestory is perpendicular with embattled parapet and grotesque gargoyles on pilasters between the windows. The chancel is of c1870-80. It has a 5 light tiered east window with statue in niche above. Quatrefoil frieze to north and pilasters. One pinnacle, and a larger pinnacle marking its eastern end with mutilated fleurons. North aisle details similar to those of south.
Inside the Church is largely perpendicular. The west tower arch and its 3 sided responds are embellished with trefoiled panels in the stone. Steep pitch of former nave roof visible above. Nave of 5 bays with two arcades, their hexagonal piers and broad chamfered arches again all decorated with traceried panels. Corbel heads to outer hood mould. Reveals of clerestory windows also panelled. Good perpendicular nave roof, with moulded and chamfered tie beams, and sculptural King and Queen posts, human effigies. Painted wood angel wall posts support tie beams by curved braces, stiffly carved figures carrying emblems and now minus their wings (the two eastern most are restorations) standing on grotesque stone corbel heads. Various carved and painted bosses, foliage, green men etc. North and south aisles both c1879-80, painted rubble. Perpendicular chancel arch, with panelled decoration, but Victorian plain chamfered responds, and low marble screen wall, with fine brass gates, presumably by Ordish. Chancel, north vestry and south chapel are entirely Victorian. Chancel roof of angular timbering; long struts supporting a high collar. Inlaid marble reredos and aumbrey to north with fine brass hinges. Intricately traceried wood screens to north and south. The Sedilia to the south is a C13 survival.
10 sided font, probably C13, with unornamented shield shaped panels, slightly mutilated, on solid base with four shafts. Wood Victorian pulpit, very elaborate; leaning angels support the main body of it, which has carved figures in highly wrought traceried niches. Curved sounding board and canopy above, also ornately worked. Stained glass in the south aisle and in one north aisle window, 1870-80, unattributed. Central panels depicting biblical scenes etc., in wide margins with floral motifs. Chancel window has saints, prophets etc., in architectural settings.
7, Lower Church Street (east side) - Grade II
House, late C17. Brick on cobbled plinth with remnants of a timber frame. Welsh slate roof. Two storeyed, two unit plan with doorway to left of centre in wide architrave, one 3 light window to its right and the original blocked opening right again, with flat arched brick head. One blocked window to the left and two others of 1 and 3 lights. Wall plate and a raising of the roof visible above. The principle feature of the elevation is the cyma moulded string course which runs across the facade and forms a round arch over the blocked lower opening and continues across the gable wall, where there is another round arch, the 3 light window which it now contains not originally related to it. A further string course forms another arch over the first floor window in the gable wall. To the right of the front elevation, is an additional lower timber framed bay with timbers of slight scantling forming square panels with arch braces. Two new windows, one to each floor.
Bridge over River Wreake, Meadow Lane (north side) - Grade II
Bridge, c1790. Granite rubble with brick dressing. Span of 2 shallow arches, with brick cutwater in central pier and brick pilaster above it, on each side. Parapets rendered over stone.
1259, Melton Road (east side) - Grade II
House, early C19. Brick with Swithland slate roof. 3 storeyed, 2 bays with side entry. Two 16 light sash windows to ground and 1st floors with flat arched brick heads. 8 light sashes to attic storey. Plain wood eaves cornice. Gable end stacks.
1261, Melton Road (east side) - Grade II
Cottage, late C18 or early C19. Painted brick with Swithland slate roof. 2 storeyed, 2 unit plan with central doorway in small gabled porch, and 3 light horizontally sliding sash windows to each floor, the lower with cambered brick heads. Plain wood eaves cornice. Gable end stacks.
1300, Melton Road (west side) - Delisted
House, early C19. Brick with low pitched Swithland slate roof. Three storeyed, two unit plan with doorway slightly off centre. 3 light window to its left with lower central opening light. Two 3 light horizontally sliding sashes above, and in the attic storey. All have flat arched brick heads. Door is reeded architrave supporting a slight canopy on consoles. To its right is a large 6 light window with a canopy on consoles over it and wide moulded architraves and brackets to sill, presumably a former shop window. Gable end stacks.
1324 and 1326 (The Gables), Melton Road (west side) - Grade II
House, probably late C18. Rough cast render presumably over brick with plinth and angle quoins. Welsh slate roof to front, Swithland slate to rear. Three gables on to street, two storeyed. A low gable to left contains a 20 light sash window on each floor. Higher middle gable has 3 light window on each floor and doorway with architrave and keystone between it and the right hand gable which has one window of c1890 with small upper panes. Architraves and keystones to all windows. Front elevation is two storeyed and angled; to the right, one bay with 20 light sash window to each floor. To the left, doorway with architrave of pilasters and entablature around a six panelled door with recessed panel above it. Two 20 light sash windows to its left on each floor, with architraves and keystones. Gable end and axial stacks.
16, School Street (west side) - Grade II
House, late C18 with an earlier core, possibly C17. Rough cast over brick or timber frame. Thatched roof. Two storeyed, two unit plan with central doorway in architrave with clustered shafts and arched consoles supporting a flat canopy with dentils over the door. Lower windows are 3 light horizontally sliding sashes with wood shutters. Upper windows 2 light horizontally sliding sashes. Brick coped gables. One moulded brick gable end stack, the other has a round shaft.
8, The Green (north side) - Grade II
House, largely late C18, though possibly on earlier core. Painted brick with Swithland slate roof. Three storeyed., two bays with late C19 shop window to left; architrave decorated with recessed panels and paired brackets to fascia board, which is also ornamented with a dentilled frieze. Doorway to right: door with overlight in moulded architrave and consoles supporting a flat canopy. One 4 light sash window to its right, and two above, with cambered heads. Two light casements to attic storey. Various straight joints between Nos. 6 and 8 and in the middle of No. 8 and also around its windows, suggest considerable alteration to an earlier structure. Gable end stacks.
10, The Green (north side) - Grade II
Cottage, with core probably of C17, though altered. Painted render over possible timber frame on a plinth with thatched roof. 1½ storeys, three unit plan, one bay to right of doorway which has an architrave with consoles supporting a flat canopy. Two windows to its left, but all ground floor windows are modern, and there is an inserted garage door to left. Three eyebrow dormers above have 2 light horizontally sliding sashes. Gable and axial stacks. The roof slopes down over the left hand bay which contains the garage doors suggesting that this bay is a modern addition. Included for group value.
16 (Stone House), Turn Street (west side) - Grade II
Cottage, probably with C17 core, refenestrated etc., in c1904. Rough cast render with stone quoins. Thatched roof. 1½ storeys, two unit plan with central doorway, a six panelled door in architrave with consoles supporting a flat canopy with modillions and other decoration beneath it. Windows are triple light sashes with small upper panes and stuccoed heads with keystones. Two large dormers probably of 1904 with 4 light sashes in broad wood architraves. Moulded stone eaves cornice. Two old brick stacks, one on left hand gable and one to right of doorway. Over the door stuccoed plaque records the name ‘Stone House’, and all the detail on this elevation probably belongs to the refurbishment of 1904 when the house which was formerly two dwellings, was extended with a rear range. Chamfered spine beam within.
26, Upper Church Street (east side) - Grade II
Cottage, early C19. Brick with Swithland slate roof. Two storeyed, a three unit plan with one bay to left of doorway containing a 3 light horizontally sliding sash window. Two other horizontally sliding 2 light sashes to right. All ground floor openings have wide splayed flat arched heads, painted. Four upper 2 light horizontally sliding sashes. Stack on left hand gable.
32, Upper Church Street (east side) - Grade II
Cottage, late C18 or early C19. Brick with Welsh slate roof. Two storeyed, three unit plan with one bay to left of doorway with a 4 light sash window with flat arched brick head. Five panelled door in moulded architrave with incised decoration and a flat canopy. Two 3 light horizontally sliding sashes with flat arched brick heads to its right. Above these two other 3 light horizontally sliding sashes have segmentally arched brick heads. Stack on left hand gable and another between the two right hand units.
115, Barkby Road - Locally Listed
Lodge adjoining cemetery. Built 1879, (date plaque on centre gable). Domestic Vernacular Revival styling. Red brick with moulded brick string courses and decorative terra cotta tiles in apex of gables. Steep pitched Swithland slate roofs. Terra cotta ridge. Tall gable stacks. 2 gabled bays to cemetery facade. Projecting bay on L with dormer roof and half timbering carried over GF on timber corbel brackets. Full height gable on R with corbelled raking string course under eaves. Generally small paned casement windows under shallow brick arched openings.
Cemetery Chapels, Barkby Road - Locally Listed
Cemetery Buildings. Mid C19, First pointed Gothic Revival. ‘H’ plan paired chapels. Transverse link with centre gable contains ceremonial pointed arch entrance to both chapels and burial ground. Red brick. Stone dressings and hood moulds to pointed arch openings. Steep pitched Swithland slate roofs with terra cottage ridge.
39 & 41, Broad Street - Locally Listed
Pair of Villa style Private Houses. Perhaps Late C19/Early C20 in origin. Domestic Vernacular Revival in character. Part stucco relieved by shallow square pilasters on main façade, part painted brick. Pitched Swithland slate roofs with lucarnes (ie dormers rising in plane of main façade). Lucarnes crowned by upstanding stepped gables. Pitched roof embraces projecting rectangular bay at each end. Distinctive vertical sliding sash windows divided in ratio 1/3rd 4 paned upper light, 2/3rd 2 paned bottom light recessed under corbelled brick head detail
1096, Melton Road - Locally Listed
Originally a Private House with outbuildings. Corner site at junction of Melton Lane/Broad Street. Now a Day Nursery. Built 1898. Plaque on gable reads ‘May Villa 1898’. Domestic Vernacular Revival styling. Red brick. Slate pitched roofs on ‘T’shaped plan. 2 storeys. Brick stacks with corbelled heads. SW façade at foot of ‘T’ contains stacked rectangular bay windows surmounted by gables infilled with pargetting. Main gable extends above projecting SW façade and decorated with pargetting including date plaque. Generally timber windows with small paned top lights and single paned bottom lights in ratio 1:2
Barkby Firs, Melton Road - Locally Listed
Perhaps originally a Private House. Later used as a Police Station. Now converted to Apartments. Former grounds redeveloped as a private housing estate built c1999/2000. Re-named ‘The Firs’. Mid-Late C19 with Early C20 additions and interventions. Austere Tudor/Gothic Revival styling. Red brick with projecting string courses and stone lintols. Multi-gabled Swithland slate pitched roofs. Upstanding stone capped gables. Terra cotta ridge and dentilated eaves. 3 bay main façade with recessed centre bay crowned by gabled ‘dormer’. Flanking bays each with full height gable and with storey height bay window on GF. Bay window on L rectangular, splayed on R. Side and rear facades asymmetrical. False hemispherical brick arches above upper windows. Generally, tall 2 light vertical sliding sash windows. Outbuildings quite plain and similarly adapted.
Wreake Valley College, Parkstone Road - Locally Listed
Community College. Built 1967/71. Severe Modern styling. Architects, Gollins Melvin & Ward. Steel frame. Pre-cast concrete cladding panels finished with cream coloured tiles. 3 tiered storeys resembling a ziggurat.

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