Strancliffe Hall, 96 Cotes Road, Barrow Upon Soar (Grade II)

Large house, dated 1868 over entrance. Brick with hipped slate roof. 2 storeys. Entrance front of 4 bays. Brick angle quoins, stone brackets supporting overhanging roof, and stone string course. Sash windows with glazing bars, some with stone architraves and consoles. Entrance porch has Tuscan columns and heavy entablature. Doorway has segmental brick arch with stone keystone bearing date and initials C.E., and a traceried fanlight. To right of door a full height bay window, leaded to 1st floor. Garden from (SW) of 3 bays with recessed centre. Central bay has curved projecting porch with Tuscan columns and roundheaded door. Wrought iron balcony over, and 3 round arched tall leaded lights. Outer bays have bow windows to ground floor, of 3 lights, and canted wood bay windows over. Lower and middle windows have flat stone heads. Roof projects on stone brackets and is carried straight across the recessed centre of the building. Decorative detail of eaves brackets repeated on tall chimney stacks. Inside, a recessed porch opens on to a central full height hall with circular gallery at 1st floor level.