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Descriptions are given below for the following buildings in Woodhouse. The buildings are in the settlement of Woodhouse. You may need to check adjoining parishes or settlements such as Woodhouse Eaves.
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.

227 (The Holt), Forest Road (west side) - Grade II
House of C18 and early C19. Rendered and whitewashed brick, part with double band, and Swithland slate hipped twin span roof with ridge and end stacks. Two storeys of four 2 light casement windows with cambered lintels. On ground floor from left a small C20 canted bay, 3 light casement, gabled porch with door and overlight, 2 light casement and small C20 canted bay with 2 light dormer over this. On left end, where extension. Various doors and casements. No. 229 (listed separately) adjoins right end. Two 6 panelled doors inside. Principal front to rear has slightly projecting central pedimented section. Stone step leads to wooden doorcase with broken pediment, pair of glazed doors and fanlight. 6/6 sash window over and dentilled eaves to pediment above. Two 6/6 sashes both floors to right and large two storey C19 canted bay to left. Two step lead to central French windows otherwise 1/1 sashes. Formerly Woodhouse Vicarage.
229, Forest Road (west side) - Grade II
Cottage of c1800. Whitewashed brick with Swithland slate roof. Side stack on return of gable projecting forward on left. 1½ storeys of casements. In gable, door with overlight and gabled canopy, small C20 canted bay to right and 2 light casement over. In recessed section to right door with overlight and 2 light to left, 1 light to right and 2 light half dormer over. 6/6 sash window with 3/6 sash and 1 light casement to rear. Included for group value with No. 227 (The Holt) which it adjoins.
Village Wellhouse, Forest Road (west side) - Grade II
Village Wellhouse of c1850. Granite rubble stone and dressed granite with timber work and Swithland slate roof. Gabled one storey structure open to front with elaborate open work sides on stone plinth. Apsidal nich in rear stone wall with bull’s head, probably in bell metal, as water spout, and small granite trough beneath.
241 and 243, Forest Road (west side) - Grade II
Two cottages of c1850. Slate rubble stone with buff brick dressings, nogged eaves and Swithland slate roof. Three Elizabethan style ornamental buff brick stacks. 1½ storeys of leaded light casements, gable to left. From left: canted bay with Swithland slate roof and 2 light in gable, two 2 lights with two 2 light dormers over and gable stone porch with door on right. A timber open work porch with door on left end, and a 3 light, 2 light and 2 light dormer on right end. Ground floor windows have slightly cambered lintels.
271 and 273, Forest Road (west side) - Grade II
Two cottages of c1850. Granite and slate rubble stone with red brick dressings and Swithland slate roof with Elizabethan style ornamental central ridge stack. Two further rear stacks. 1½ storeys of mostly leaded light casements: from left: 1 light, two 3 lights, gabled open work porch with door, and two 2 light dormers over. On left end two 2 lights, gabled open work porch with door, 2 light dormer and 2 light in gable. Further 2 light in rear outshut. On right end two 1 lights, a 2 light, 2 light dormer and 2 light in gable.
Beaumanor Hall Lodge, Forest Road (west side) - Grade II
Lodge of c1850. Granite and slate rubble stone with stone dressings and plinth, and Swithland slate roof with elaborate stone central clustered ridge stack. 1½ storeys of leaded casements in Tudor style, entrance to drive, left gable to road. Gables with barge boards and finials. To left wooden open work gabled porch on stone plinth with Tudor arched doorway and 1 and 2 light casements to right. 1 light half hipped dormer over. On left end canted mullioned bay with 2 light to front and 2 light casement over, the hoodmould (with label stops) of which rises to enclose a stone crest and motto. On right end door and 2 light casement. 2 light, 1 light half hipped dormer and C20 one storey extension to rear.
Gate, Piers and Walls at Lodge, Forest Road (west side) - Grade II
Gate piers and walls on c1850. Rusticated granite with coping. To right and slightly in front of lodge lie five piers and two pieces of curved walling. Piers are at ends, wide gate for drive and pedestrian gate. Group value with Lodge.
K6 Telephone Kiosk, Forest Road (west 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.
Rushall Field Farmhouse, Rushay Lane (south side) - Grade II
House of C18, and early C19. Red brick with rubble stone plinth and Swithland slate roof with central ridge and end stacks. Front to garden. Left ground floor of C18, rest early C19. Two storeys of four windows with cambered lintels. From left to right: 3 light casement with same over: 3 light casement with 3 light horizontal sliding sash over; two storey slight projection with part glazed door, stone hoodmould and 3/6 sash window over; and 12/12 sash both floors. Gable with door and casements to road.
26 and 28 (Pest Cottage), School Lane (north side) - Grade II
Two cottages, probably built as one, of C16/C17. Timber framing of 2½ bays with whitewashed brick nogging and thatch roof with central ridge and left end stacks. 1½ storeys with two 3 light eyebrow dormers. On ground floor from left a 2 light casement, thatched porch with door, a further 2 light casement, a 3 light sliding sash, thatched porch with door and 3 light sliding sash. On left end C20 one storey extension with Swithland slate and garage with thatched roof. On right end a thatched outshut with stone stack and 2 light casement over. Home of Thomas Rawlins, refugee from Great Plague, and founder of Rawlins School.
31 (Valley Cottage), School Lane (south side) - Grade II
Cottage of C17/C18. Granite and slate rubble stone with brick dressings, brick nogged eaves and Swithland slate roof with rebuilt end stacks. Two storeys of three 3 light horizontal sliding sashes. On ground floor 1 light casement, 3 light horizontal sliding sash, doorway with 6 panelled door (top panels glazed) and 3 light horizontal sliding sash with top lights. On left end two attic windows and 1½ storey extension with a 1 light window on front and on end where further small one storey outshut. One storey outbuilding adjoins right corner of house. To rear doors, windows, small C20 bay and one storey wing. Inside inglenook with hood, chamfered beams (one stopped) and some chamfered rafters.
41 (Brook Cottage), School Lane (south side) - Grade II
Cottage of late C17/C18. Granite and slate rubble stone, red brick, buff brick and Swithland slate roof with right end stack. 1½ storeys of 2 light casements. Cottage borders stream and central door reached over small slate bridge. Doorway with cambered lintel and casement either side. Blocked door and casement on left end with queen post truss and casement in gable. Brick nogging. Casement in left end gable. 1½ storey C20 extension to rear.
Barn at 43, School Lane (south side) - Grade II
Barn of c1700. Granite and slate rubble stone plinth with timber framing, red brick nogging and Swithland slate roof. Two bays with cross wall and two pairs of garage doors, and lower one bay with door to left. On right end two brick buttresses with door and ogee clasped principal rafters in gable.
45 (Lane End Cottage), School Lane (south side) - Grade II
House, originally school, of c1695 with extensions of 1913 and later. Granite and slate rubble stone with hipped Swithland slate roof and end and rear roof stacks (right truncated). 2½ storeys of four casements, 1 light and three 2 lights. Three dormer over. On ground floor central C20 porch with part glazed door and to left 2 light casement with top lights, 12 pane fixed light, 2 light casement with top lights. To right a 1 light casement and a C20 canted bay in 1913 extension. C20 one storey extension on right end. Some windows have brick lintels. First floor 1 light casement and C20 garage on left end. Windows to rear, some with brick lintels, and chamfered beams inside, together with probably contemporary staircase. Originally Rawlins School founded by refugee of Great Plague. Nicjols J History and Antiquities of Leicestershire, 1795-1811, Vol. III p.115 and pl. XVII
Fox Hills and Nursery Cottage, Vicary Lane (east side) - Grade II
Two cottages of C17 with later extension. Whitewashed granite and slate rubble stone with brick coped gables and thatch roof with two ridge stacks. 1½ storeys of casements: three 2 light half dormers, one with top lights. On ground floor 2 light casement and door in later extension on left, then 3 light casement, 1 light, 3 light, door with porch and 3 light. 3 light casement with 2 light over on left end and a 2 light casement both floors right end. Long outshuts, doors, casements and a 1 light and a 2 light eyebrow dormer to rear. Inglenook and chamfered stopped beams inside. Formerly known as Woodhouse Fields.
Beaumanor Hall, Beaumanor Park - Grade II*
Mansion of 1842-53 by William Railton for W Perry Herrick. Red brick in Jacobean style of highest quality workmanship outside and in. Stone dressings, plinth, band, frieze and dentilled cornice, and parapet coping. Carved and pierced stone balustrade panels in part as well as urns between stone coped Dutch gables. Plain tile roof and tall brick stacks in clusters of several flues with partly carved stone bases, banding and tops. Two storeys and attic of mullion and transom sash windows with stone surrounds and architraves. Symmetrical entrance front of three large gables, the central projecting slightly. Here a round arched doorway with rusticated stone surround. The keystone is the pendant of half round stone oriel window above. A 3 light both floors either side and a 5 light with 4 light above in side gables. A 2 light in attics. Five stone steps lead up to pair of richly carved oak doors. Subsidiary range to right of 3½ storeys. Similar 2, 3 and 4 light windows, door and 3 Dutch gables. The avenue front to left of 5 windows; the central a two storey square bay of 5 light below, 4 above with single side lights. A 2 light either side, lower left blocked, and either end canted two storey bays of 4 lights and side lights. Strapwork stone carving over bays and central gable richly carved with caryatids, volutes, etc. A gable with 2 light either side and pierced balustrading in between. Garden front to rear has flight of stone steps with elaborately carved stone urn either side leading up to central round arched doorway with side lights and oriel over. The gable to left has a 2 light either side of a two storey canted 4 light bay with side lights. Gable to right has similar bay only. Carved tops to bays and pierced balustrade between gables with 2 lights. Lower subsidiary range to left of two storeys with basement and attic of 2, 3 and 4 light similar windows and 4 gables. Courtyard front to right of entrance of three storeys, four 8/8 sashes and large mullion and transom window to right and doors. Small interior court in centre of house with similar windows. Interior: entrance vestibule with richly carved stone fireplace displaying Herrick arms amid strapwork over mantle. Carved oak panelled ceiling, frieze, dado and door and window surrounds. Beyond a magnificent two storey staircase hall with Imperial staircase. Richly carved oak balustrading continues round gallery on three sides. Above an elaborately panelled ceiling dated 1853 with strapwork and pendants. At the head of first flight of stairs a large contemporary window of 7x3 lights of stained and painted armorial glass by Warrington of London. Between hall and garden front vestibule a richly carved stone arch. Facing the avenue and garden fronts a series of reception rooms with rich strapwork ceilings and friezes, carved oak door and window surrounds, marble fireplaces, walnut bookcases in one room, carved pelments in another. Similar simpler decoration on first floor but here a room, with carved oak fireplace, strapwork ceiling and stained glass in window, designed for bed thought to be associated with Richard III. The mansion was the seat of the Herrick family for 300 years from 1595, the previous building dating from C13 having been visited by Richard II the home of the Duchess of Suffolk, mother of Lady Jane Grey. The avenue or S front closely resembles a drawing of the S front as refaced c1615 by Sir William Herrick and it is almost certain that Railton was ‘recreating’ this house demolished in 1726. It is his only complete country house design to remain unaltered. Beaumanor, which is the estate house for Woodhouse, is an important landmark. Railton also designed nearby Church of St Paul, Woodhouse Eaves, (listed separately). Drinkall P., A Brief History of Beaumanor Hall and Park, Leicester, 1978, Colvin.
Stables, Clock Tower and Outhouses, Beaumanor Park - Grade II*
Stables, clock tower and outhouses of c1842-54. Red brick in Jacobean style with stone dressings, parapet cornice, coped Dutch gables and plain tile roof with two ridge stacks. Buildings lie round large courtyard to right of mansion. Gauged brick lintels and fine quality doors, frames and overlights. Various tall one storey ranges project from mansion with stable and other doors. Three gateway ranges, gables facing, with stone dressings to pilasters and stone arches with carved keystones. At right end of courtyard a range of two storeys and attic with five gables. Segmental arches over five pairs of carriage doors with 2 light stone mullion windows above, the central a French door. Five bull’s eye windows in gables. To either side a similar single storey of one arched doorway will bull’s eye over. Rear of this range similar but without carriage doors, and to rear light an elaborate tall square clock tower of fire stages, the 4th with holes to pigeon loft all round, the 5th of high relief carved stone strapwork etc., with a four faced clock, one of metal, the others of carved stone with Roman numerals. Above a leaded ogee shaped roof with small lucarnes and short fleche. A brick wall with stone coping and end piers stretches part of way across courtyard near mansion. Buildings dated 1854 on rainwater heads.
Terrace Walls, Urns, Fountains and Seats, Beaumanor Park - Grade II*
Terrace walls, urns, fountain and seat of mid C19. Elaborately carved and pierced stone. Beaumanor Hall is surrounded by a series of low walls with piers, urns, open strapwork panels to entrance, avenue and garden fronts. Facing latter a fountain with round basin and semi circular stone seat behind. Carved back with four volutes in between decorated with carved bull’s heads: the Herrick crest. Other piers with diamond pointed rustication and Renaissance style urns.
H (Cottages) WWII Communications Hut - Grade II
WWII communications hut disguised as a pair of estate workmen's cottages, now used for storage. 1941-2.
MATERIALS: Red brick with corrugated asbestos roof.
EXTERIOR: Two storeys, roof with fictive central ridge stack. Front is a 6-window range at first floor of renewed casement windows. There are four windows and two doors on the ground floor all applied to the solid brick walls but the windows have brick projecting sills, thin lintels and brick soldier courses above. Ends have genuine doors, that to right altered late C20 and there is also a window above this. To rear are outshuts and a long single-storey wing projecting to the rear in the centre. Also on the rear behind the left end is another casement window on the ground floor again applied to a solid brick wall. This is probably the only original window to survive, though the sill and lintel also survive on the other side, beyond the rear wing.
INTERIOR: A single two-storey space with service rooms in the rear wing.
HISTORY: Since 1974 Beaumanor has been owned by Leicestershire County Council and is used for a wide range of educational activities. Although the present house dates from 1845, and was designed by William Railton, the site is ancient, having been an important residence in the medieval period and the home of the Duchess of Suffolk, mother of Lady Jane Grey, in the C16. It was bought by William Herrick in 1595 and remained the home of the Herricks until the early C20. Inherited by the Curzon-Howe family it was borrowed or requisitioned by the War Office at the outbreak of the Second World War and became a highly important Strategical Intercept Station, the most important intercept station of the War Office Y Group, for the collection of enemy Morse-code radio signals, which, after processing, were sent to Bletchley Park for decoding. By the end of the war there were some 1300 wireless operators at Beaumanor. In 1941-2 the extensive C19 buildings were augmented by specially built huts which were disguised as various estate buildings. These huts were the vital initial collection points in the highly secret process which ended in the decoding and reading of the messages at Bletchley Park.
H (Cottages) hut was one of four set rooms. Each had 14 inch blast-proof walls built into the structure and these stretched 8 feet up from ground level. The civilian operators manned H and the ATS the other three. These buildings had fake windows at ground level and small real windows up under the roof which were only useful for providing some daylight. The huts were linked by underground cables: each had 40 positions manned by 36 operators with four control sets for search work, looking for new or 'lost' stations and they also allowed flexibility when sets were being serviced. The supervisor sat in the centre of the room at one end facing the operators and close to the only access to the hut. Near the supervisor was the device for sending the intercepted messages through a pneumatic tube to the teleprinter room where it would be received for onward transmission via the teleprinter operators to Bletchley Park and the code breakers.
H hut was designed to look like a pair of semi-detached estate workmen's cottages of two storeys with a single storey rear wing. The disguise was complete with front doors and applied glazed window frames. The interior was, and still is, a single large space two storeys high with a lower rear wing. These buildings were a vital part in the collection and processing of coded enemy signals. The link between Beaumanor and Bletchley Park was close and constant, with teleprinter messages and despatch riders continually travelling between the two. The historical importance of the wartime buildings at Bletchley has recently been recognised with several items being listed. The items at Beaumanor have special historic interest for their vital part in this decoding chain and also the quality of interest in the physical fabric in that they are thought to have been unique wartime military buildings built and disguised as others. The only others similar were some pillboxes and gun emplacements camouflaged as seaside kiosks or buildings painted on hangars.
SOURCES:
Joan Nicholls, England Needs You. The Story of Beaumanor Y station, 2000.
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION DECISION:
H (Cottages) hut at Beaumanor Park is designated at Grade II, for the following principal reasons:
- It is a WWII signals structure of 1941-2 which was disguised to appear to be a country house service building when seen from the air and at a distance;
- It survives little altered with its disguise still mostly retained;
- It was part of the initial collection point for enemy Morse-code signals and a vital part in the code breaking process which was completed at Bletchley Park.
K (Stable) WWII Communications Hut - Grade II
WWII communications hut disguised as a stable, now used for youth group accommodation. 1941-2.
MATERIALS: Red brick with corrugated asbestos roof.
EXTERIOR: Single storey with rear outshuts. Front has 4 stable doors and a later C20 porch extension, blank except for the door. The stable doors are all applied to the solid brick walls but when the upper parts are opened they reveal windows behind. Right end has a genuine door with a roundel above perhaps a fictive pitching hole and also the original K hut sign. The left end has a low later C20 addition.
The rear has very small thin horizontal windows up at the eaves and these appear to be original openings in part, though the actual windows are recent. There are others in the various outshuts.
INTERIOR: This has had minimal subdivision.
HISTORY: Since 1974 Beaumanor has been owned by Leicestershire County Council and is used for a wide range of educational activities. Although the present house dates from 1845, and was designed by William Railton, the site is ancient, having been an important residence in the medieval period and the home of the Duchess of Suffolk, mother of Lady Jane Grey, in the C16. It was bought by William Herrick in 1595 and remained the home of the Herricks until the early C20. Inherited by the Curzon-Howe family it was borrowed or requisitioned by the War Office at the outbreak of the Second World War and became a highly important Strategical Intercept Station, the most important intercept station of the War Office Y Group, for the collection of enemy Morse-code radio signals, which, after processing, were sent to Bletchley Park for decoding. By the end of the war there were some 1300 wireless operators at Beaumanor. In 1941-2 the extensive C19 buildings were augmented by specially built huts which were disguised as various estate buildings. These huts were the vital initial collection points in the highly secret process which ended in the decoding and reading of the messages at Bletchley Park.
K (Stable) hut was one of four set rooms. Each had 14 inch blast-proof walls built into the structure and these stretched 8 feet up from ground level. The civilian operators manned H and the ATS the other three.
Except for K hut, which was disguised to look like a stable, these buildings had fake windows at ground level and small real windows up under the roof which were only useful for providing some daylight. The huts were linked by underground cables: each had 40 positions manned by 36 operators with four control sets for search work, looking for new or 'lost' stations and they also allowed flexibility when sets were being serviced. The supervisor sat in the centre of the room at one end facing the operators and close to the only access to the hut. Near the supervisor was the device for sending the intercepted messages through a pneumatic tube to the teleprinter room where it would be received for onward transmission via the teleprinter operators to Bletchley Park and the codebreakers.
K hut was designed to look like a set of four stables with stable doors to the front and an outshut to the rear. This hut retains its original brick walls, corrugated asbestos roof and stable doors. The interior was again a single large space and has only minimally been subdivided to provide simple accommodation for youth groups.
These buildings were a vital part in the collection and processing of coded enemy signals. The link between Beaumanor and Bletchley Park was close and constant, with teleprinter messages and despatch riders continually travelling between the two. The historical importance of the wartime buildings at Bletchley has recently been recognised with several items being listed. The items at Beaumanor have special historic interest for their vital part in this decoding chain and also the quality of interest in the physical fabric in that they are thought to have been unique wartime military buildings built and disguised as others. The only others similar were some pillboxes/gun emplacements camouflaged as seaside kiosks or buildings painted on hangars.
SOURCES:
Joan Nicholls, England Needs You, The Story of Beaumanor Y station, 2000.
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION DECISION:
K(Stable)hut at Beaumanor park is designated at grade 11, for the following principal reasons:
- It is a WWII signals structure of 1941-2 which was disguised to appear to be a country house service building when seen from the air and at a distance;
- It survives little altered with its disguise still mostly retained;
- It was part of the initial collection point for enemy Morse-code signals and a vital part in the code breaking process which was copleted at Bletchley Park.

Bridge before Stables at Beaumanor Hall, Beaumanor Park - Grade II
Bridge of mid C19. Slate and granite rubble stone with dressed stone coping, end finials and top to cut water. Two segmental arches. Lies close to main stable entrance and carries road across stream.
Fountain in Stableyard at Beaumanor Hall, Beaumanor Park - Grade II
Fountain of mid C19. Dressed granite. Square central basin with rounded corners and a lower drinking trough to each side, all mounted on low stone plinth. Decorated with initials W.P.H. for William Perry Herrick.
Kennels Cottage, Beaumanor Park - Grade II
Cottage of C18, modified earlier C19, formerly two or three. Granite and slate rubble stone with brick dressings and plain tile roof with two probably earlier C19 Elizabethan style brick ridge stacks and further stack on right extension. Main range with gabled cross wings either end and lower gabled extension to right. 1½ storeys of casement windows, the 3 light mostly centre opening. Central door leading to cross passage with 1 light casement to left and 2 light casement with cambered lintel to right. Horizontal beam at 1st floor level further right. Two 2 light dormers over. Door in left cross wing with 2 light casement over. Similar in right wing where gable of brick. 3 light casement on left end. Rear (facing field and possibly original front) has central door with porch and a 3 light casement either side with two 2 light dormers over. Left 3 light has part brick, part wooden hoodmould. A 3 light casement on both floors in left cross wing, each with brick hoodmould. On right cross wing a 1 light casement and 3 light casement with cambered lintel over. Chamfered beams, left cross wing tie beam and low wide doors inside.
Herrick family Tomb, Forest Road (east side) - Grade II
Table tomb of c1830. Stone sarcophagus with carved angle volutes and plain pediments on stone plinth. Iron railings with spear head finials and acorns at corners. On end nearest Church the Herrick coat of arms carved in stone and (on the plinth beneath) a small worn marble wreath of flowers. Stands SW of and close to tower. Group value with Church.
Church of St Mary in the Elms, Forest Road (east side) - Grade II*
Church of C15, C17 and C19. Granite and slate rubble stone and dressed stone and Swithland slate roofs with stone coped gables and cross finials. Moulding band beneath nave window sills. W tower; nave and chancel under one roof; N aisle and S porch and SW vestry. Tower of three stages, lower part of c1450 with upper part and tall pyramid roof of 1844 and later C19. W arch to nave. W lancet with C19 stained glass. Flat topped 1 light window on 2nd stage S wall. Small two storey NW extension. Three 2 light flat topped bell openings and rubble stone stack with ashlar flue on E side above nave roof. Gilded weathercock on roof. Nave walls partly of C15 with buttresses and on S side seven C17 2 light windows with cambered lintels. Mainly C19 stained glass (one window 1845 by Warrington), but fragments of heraldic glass of 1450. N aisle of 1878with two bay arcade: double chamfered arches onto circular pier. Four windows, three with stained glass of 1943, 1928 and 1892. Further C17 2 light on N wall of chancel with further fragments of 1450 stained glass. 5 light perp E window renewed 1858 with stained glass by Hedgeland. Hoodmould and label stops outside. C19 triple purlin roof with collars and struts covers nave and chancel. C19 S porch and C19 SW vestry possibly C17 in part. Blocked S door to chancel. Pulpit of 1615 with tall back panel; C18 and C19 wall monuments; possibly medieval font; linenfold panelling in chancel brought in, partly C16/C17. In N aisle organ screen are four fragments of C16 wood carving, one dated 1597.
Heanes Family Headstones, Forest Road (east side) - Grade II
Three headstones of c1750. Swithland slate of similar design with carved coat of arms in circle above inscription. These headstones stand together touching the NE wall of chancel and forming a group with church, war memorial, and Garat’s Hay, and are included for group value.
War Memorial in Wall of Churchyard, Forest Road (east side) - Grade II
War memorial of c1920. Ashlar and Swithland slate of c3m high. Stands as part of rubble stone wall surrounding churchyard opposite E wall of chancel and comprises two coped side sections and central slate plaque with stone moulding rising round it and cross on top. 2nd smaller plaque beneath. Group value with church, Heanes’ headstones, and Garat’s Hay.
Garat’s Hay, Forest Road (east side) - Grade II
Large house of early C19 and 1896. Granite and slate rubble stone rendered, and buff brick, part rendered, with part parapetted, part Swithland slate, part plain tile roof with various ridge stacks. Square house of two storeys, the main entrance being to the left of the road front where also a subsidiary pavement door. This and the entrance front are of 1896 whilst main garden front, to left of entrance front, and rear garden front are early C19. Entrance front has central doorway up stone steps with two leaved part glazed door and overlight and 1 light either side. Leaded lights of c1900, part stained glass. Swithland slate canopy over. On 1st floor to left a canted oriel bay of sash windows. Main garden front to left has battlemented parapet and central two storey canted section with Gothic arched doorway to front (2 leaved part glazed doors) and 6/6 sash with hoodmould over. Further sashes to canted sides and two 6/6 sashes either side of this canted section except that 1st floor far left and right windows are blank. Road front of 1896 has buff brick ground floor and render above. Nine windows mostly 6/6 sashes. Door centre right up three stone steps within porch. This is flat topped and supported on left by column and right by stone coped wall of one storey extension to right. 1st floor to left has twin gable with jettying. Rear garden front to right of road has six similar sashes with canted two storey bays also with sashes at each end. Inside the entrance hall a window and a part glazed screen both with leaded lights of c1900, part stained glass. Group value with Church of St Mary in the Elms.
230, Forest Road (east side) - Grade II
House of 1855. Slate rubble stone with buff brick dressings and Swithland slate roof with various Elizabethan style ornamental buff brick stacks. Irregular gabled composition of 1½ storeys of leaded light casements. Gable to right. From left: 3 light with a diamond pane of blue glass engraved with crests and 1855; door with gabled canopy, and two 2 light ½ dormers over. Canted bay with 2 light over in gable. On left end a 3 light with similar dated pane and two 2 lights over. On right end a 1 light and a 2 light either side a projecting stack, then a 12 pane in projecting gable return with 2 light in gable itself. One storey extension to rear. Adjoining left side a one storey outbuilding with similar stack. Formerly the Beaumanor Estate Home Farm.
240 and 242 (Pear Tree Cottage), Forest Road (east side) - Grade II
Cottage of C17/C18. Whitewashed brick and rubble stone with Swithland slate roof and two ridge stacks. 1½ storeys of C20 leaded light casements to ground floor: 3 light, 4 light, porch with door, 2 light, 4 light, 3 light. Four 3 light dormers over. One storey extension on right end and 2 light dormer and remains of timber framing to rear.
244, Forest Road (east side) - Grade II
Cottage of late C15/C16 remodelled C18. Rendered brick and rubble stone with timber framing and Swithland slate roof with central ridge and left end stacks. 1½ storeys of casements: from left: 2 light sliding sash, 2 light and partly glazed door with canopy. Two 3 light centre opening leaded light dormers over. Door, casements, dormer and outshut to rear. Inside are visible two pairs of cruck blades, two inglenooks, chamfered beams including one moulded, and possibly C16 window frames.
258, Forest Road (east side) - Grade II
Cottage of C18. Render with shouldered coped gables, thatch roof and end stacks. 1½ storeys of a 3 light casement either side thatched porch and door. A 2 light eyebrow dormer over. Two 2 light casements to both ends and outshuts to rear.
264, Forest Road (east side) - Grade II
Cottage of c1850. Slate rubble stone and Swithland slate roof with right end and rear Elizabethan style ornamental buff brick stacks. 1½ storeys, gable facing, of leaded light casements with rubble stone cambered lintels. Entrance faces right. Gabled porch with 2 light either side and two 2 light dormers over. On left end facing road a 2 light, a 3 light, with 2 light dormer and 2 light in gable. On right end a C20 one storey extension.
274, Forest Road (east side) - Grade II
Cottage of 1910, part possibly earlier. Slate and granite rubble stone with hipped thatched roof and projecting right end stone stack. 1½ storeys of renewed casements: one, three, door, 2 light with two lunette dormers over. Left end has two 2 lights below in segmental recess with pigeon holes over. 2 light on right end. Two doors, two casements and bay to rear. Dated 1910 in attic.
280, Forest Road (east side) - Grade II
Cottage of C15/C16 with wings of C16/C17. Colourwashed rendered rubble stone, brick and timber framing with Swithland slate roof and brick central ridge, left side and right wing end stacks. Centre range of 1½ storeys built on two pairs of cruck blades with gabled cross wings at ends of two storeys. Entrance to rear. Road front has a 1 and a 2 light leaded casement in centre with two 2 light casements in left wing. Left end has outshut with door and right end a 2 and a 3 light casement. To rear two recessed porch features in centre showing blade ends, a 3 light casement within left, door in right. 2 light dormer over. Timber framed gable to left with 1 light casement and similar gable to right with 2 light casement and a 1 and a 2 light casement below. Beams inside.
209-215 (odd), Forest Road (west side) - Grade II
Range of four cottages, originally almshouses of 1856. Slate rubble stone with stone dressings and Swithland slate roof with blue flashing tiles and end finials. Barge boards on gables. Central ridge and end stacks on rear of clustered ashlar flues. Long symmetrical range of one storey, roof higher and hipped in centre and half hipped on ends. At ends of central section two slight doorway projections with hipped roofs above eaves and M.A.H. and A.D. 1856 with stone coats of arms in section above eaves. Oak mullion and transom leaded light windows: from left: 3 light, 1 light, door with ‘Offer unto God thanksgiving’ carved over, canted bay with small gable over, similar bay, 1 light, similar door, 1 light, 3 light.

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