1787 to 1795 Melton Road, Rearsby (Grade II)

Geo: 52.7216, -1.0389
Date ListedTue 9th October, 1984
CategoryStatutory Listed Building
AddressNos. 1787 and 1795 (odd) Melton Road Rearsby LE7 4YR
GradeGrade II
Grid ReferenceSK6500914208
LBS189542
Volume, Map, Item285, 4, 76
ParishRearsby
WardWreake Villages
Conservation AreaRearsby
Description

Row of 5 estate cottages. Dated 1862. Brick, with tiled roof with decorative fish scale bands. Picturesque Tudor gothic group, symmetrically arranged. 2 storeys, 7 bays in all with outer and centre projecting gables. The central gable contains a 3 light casement window to ground floor with stilted yellow brick arch with stone key. 2 light oriel window above. Outer gables have a 2 light casement window on each floor. Each gable has some tumbled brickwork and a stone shield in the apex, blank on the outer gables, and on the central, recorded the date with initials WAP. Intermediate bays have inner doorways recessed behind an outer archway with yellow brick stilted arch and keystone, and two 2 light casement windows to each floor. All windows have yellow brick heads. Over the first floor windows, steep gablets. Yellow brick nogged eaves cornice and string course. Clustered moulded brick axial stacks.

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.