Charnwood Borough Council - Leading in Leicestershire

Descriptions are given below for the following buildings in Wanlip. In general the buildings are in the parish of Wanlip. 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
Ice House, Rectory Road (west side) - Grade II
Church of St Nicholas, Church Road - Grade II
Locally Listed Buildings
Hall Farm, Rectory Road - Locally Listed
Manor Farm, Rectory Road - Locally Listed

Ice House, Rectory Road (west side) - Grade II
Ice House. Late C18 or early C19. Brick. Externally a domed structure with short vaulted entrance tunnel. Inside, a deep well below ground level makes the whole an egg shaped structure of 15’ diameter. Double brick construction, the exterior of the dome lined with rat trap bond brickwork. Inner end of entrance tunnel rebated to take a doorway with a high step. Small aperture at crown of dome, presumably for putting ice into the pit.
Church of St Nicholas, Church Road - Grade II
Parish Church. Basically C13 and C14 but much restored: the south aisle was added in 1904. Mostly of granite rubble with ashlar dressing. West tower, nave with one aisle, and chancel. Late C13 buttressed west tower of 2 stages with west window with 3 cusped light, and paired foiled light to bell chamber. Embattled parapet with gargoyles. South aisle of 1904, in early decorated style. Its west wall has 3 stepped buttresses containing a door and two windows. Niche with statue over south door whose moulded arch springs from chamfer rather than a shaft. Two foiled 3 light windows with corbel heads. Plain parapet with gargoyles. South west window of nave consists of 3 rounded headed lights with high relieving arch and is early perpendicular. High chancel is slightly wider than the nave and built of fine rubble on a plinth. In its south side is a low side window and late decorated window of 3 foiled lights. The east window is a C19 restoration of an early perpendicular 5 light window with very plain tracery. The four north windows are Victorian renewals with stilted hoodmoulds and corbel heads over 3 light tracery.
Interior has double chamfered arch to west tower, and nave arcade of 3 bays to south aisle. The aisle itself is of 1904, but the arcade is C14 the former aisle demolished 1796, short octagonal columns with heavy abaci support double chamfered arches with corbel heads to outer hoodmould. Some traces of painting on the piers. Narrow round arched north doorway. North windows set in shafted recesses. No chancel arch. Nave and chancel roofed as one, a C19 cambered trussed roof, the chancel emphasized by additional struts and bosses. Various late C17 and C18 wall memorials to members of the Palmer family in the chancel, and two C19 decorated slates bearing the commandments etc. above the alter. In the chancel floor a large brass of 1393, commemorating Thomas and Katherine Walsh, and recording that they “in yer tyme made the Kirke of Anlep”. Figure of a knight and lady, in a border containing the inscription and the emblems of the evangelists. Stained glass in west and east windows of 1904; and some older armorial glass in north windows.
Hall Farm, Rectory Road - Locally Listed
Farm. Perhaps Late C18 in origin. Some outbuildings Early C19. Attractive cluster of Vernacular farm buildings hidden behind cottage style farmhouse. Generally mellow red brick. Farmhouse painted white. Pitched roofs largely re-covered with unhappy concrete tiles or corrugated metal sheet. Hipped slate roof to barn on R (adjoining No 41) in poor condition. Ridge stacks. 2 storeys. Horizontal small paned sliding sash and casement windows to farmhouse, under shallow brick arched heads
Manor Farm, Rectory Road - Locally Listed
Farm Perhaps Late C18/EarlyC19 in origin. Plain Regency/Early Victorian farmhouse fronting an untidy cluster of neglected or insensitively repaired barns and outbuildings. Generally mellow red brick. Farmhouse painted white. Generally pitched roofs, some with concrete tiles, some slated some clad with corrugated metal sheet. Farmhouse roof hipped with deep eaves. Squat brick stacks. Farmhouse windows part horizontal sliding sashes, part casements under shallow brick arched heads. Front elevation disfigured by downpipes and cables.