11 to 13 Main Street, Newtown Linford (Grade II)

Geo: 52.6843, -1.2323
Date ListedThu 15th March, 1984
CategoryStatutory Listed Building
AddressNos. 11 and 13 Main Street Newtown Linford LE6 0AF
GradeGrade II
Grid ReferenceSK5199709905
LBS189091
Volume, Map, Item286, 5, 39
ParishNewtown Linford
WardForest Bradgate
Conservation AreaNewtown Linford
Description

Two cottages of C17/C18 with c1800 wing. Red brick with granite rubble stone and remains of timber framing. C20 plain tile roof with rebuilt central ridge and right gable end stacks. Long range of two storeys of casements with stone cross wing on right end gable facing. No. 11 to right with door and 2 light casement above and 3 light casement both floors to right. Remains of framing here with brick nogging, some renewed. Gable has renewed 3 light casement with top lights, mullion and transom window above with attic 2 light casement. Cambered lintels to wing and ground floor. Wing restored with renewed shouldered brick coped gable. No. 13 has door to left with two 3 light casements and 2 light casement above. Casements, doors and outshut to rear. Beams, inglenook and pair of cruck blades visible inside No. 11. Group value with Nos. 9 and 15. No. 11 is almost certainly the ?Rose Cottage? referred to in Webster V.R., Cruck Framed buildings of Leicestershire, Transactions L.A.S., Vol. xxx (1954) P.28.

The description above describes the salient features of the building as it was at the date of listing. It is given in order to aid identification; it is not intended to be either comprehensive or exclusive.

Statutory Listing covers all parts of the property and its curtilage, ie all internal and external elements whether described or not.