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Descriptions are given below for the following buildings in Thurmaston. In general the buildings are in the parish of Thurmaston. 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
Church of St Michael, Melton Road (east side) - Grade II*
Remains of Old Chapel, Melton Road (east side) - Grade II
Locally Listed Buildings
Wreake Valley College (see Syston) - Locally Listed
Eastfield County Primary School, Eastfield Road - Locally Listed
841~853 (odd), Melton Road - Locally Listed
St Michael’s Church Community Centre, Melton Road - Locally Listed

Church of St Michael, Melton Road (east side) - Grade II*
Parish Church, exterior largely of 1848 though the west tower is C14. Internally some early C14 work remains, including the arcades. Randomly coursed granite rubble throughout, with ashlar dressings. West tower, nave with 2 aisles, chancel. Buttressed tower of 2 stages, with C19 west doorway in roll moulded and hollow chamfered arch. Two light C19 window above. Paired foiled lights to bell chamber. Embattled parapet with gargoyles. Buttressed south aisle is of 1848: the west window is in a decorated style the others are perpendicular. Three lights with paired lights above, in square headed openings with hoodmoulds and corbel heads. South doorway has roll moulded and hollow chamfered archway. Aisle and nave under a single sweep of roof. Chancel also of 1848 in decorated style. Four light east window. To the north east of Chancel a polygonal projecting chapel. North aisle has similar details to south, with the addition of a large gabled porch with parvise.
Internally, the arcades of the medieval church survive, and are of c1300. Five bays round chamfered arches on alternately octagonal and clustered columns, with heavy abaci western bay is a shallower arch of less height and later date, linking the existing church with the added tower, which has a tall double chamfered arch. Nave roof is Victorian, an ornate and unusual construction, since the aisles are roofed under the same slope, the roof carried clear of the arcade wall on a higher timber arcade. Nave roof itself is of hammer beam construction , ornately decorated in the spanadiels at the main braces. Narrow North doorway with double chamfered arch and responds.
Chancel arch is east of the steps up to the chancel, and rests on high corbels. Scissor braced roof 4 light east window with stained glass of 1879. East windows of aisles contain glass of 1845, in the style of a painting.
Font probably Victorian, squared lower base rises through chamfering to an octagonal section from which concave curves spring to support the plain octagonal basin.
Remains of Old Chapel, Melton Road (east side) - Grade II
Remains of old chapel, probably C13. Coursed limestone rubble, consisting of a fragment of the west wall, containing a single lancet window in a projecting section of wall. The window is splayed on its inner face and has a dressed raking ashlar sill course externally.
Eastfield County Primary School, Eastfield Road - Locally Listed
Primary School for Leicestershire Education Committee. Built 1966/68. Architects, Ahrends, Burton & Koralek. Classrooms, kitchen, library and hall arranged around a central courtyard. Sand-lime brickwork with patent glazing angled at the top. Generally, flat roof with upstanding angled top lights. Zinc sheet cladding to deep fascias. Tall steel stack to boilerhouse. Single storey. The style of the school is said to owe much to Leicestershire’s most famous C20 building, the Engineering Building at Leicester University by James Stirling & James Gowan, 1959-63 (Pevsner).
841~853 (odd), Melton Road - Locally Listed
Terrace of 6 Almshouses, now privately owned. Mid C19 Gothic Revival. Red/blue brick. Steep slate pitched multi-gabled roofs with deep eaves, closed by tall return gable at each end. 4 shouldered ridge stacks with corbelled heads. Pointed brick arches to all openings on principal elevations. Untidy rear elevations, spoilt by inappropriate replacement windows.
St Michael’s Church Community Centre, Melton Road - Locally Listed
Originally a ‘National School’, later Cof E Primary School. Now St Michael’s Church Community Centre. Built 1844. Stripped Gothic Revival in character, perhaps by Henry I Stevens who restored the church in 1848. Mellow red/yellow patterned brick with stone capped buttresses. Stone string courses. Stone hood moulds above openings. Steep slate pitched roofs with upstanding stone capped gables. Dormers may be a later addition. 2 storeys plus attic. Alterations include a variety of replacement windows and crudely bricked up openings.