List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: CARLTON CURLIEU HALL
List Entry Number: 1180165
Location
CARLTON CURLIEU HALL
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Leicestershire
District: Harborough
District Type: District Authority
Parish: Carlton Curlieu
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II*
Date first listed: 19-Oct-1951
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 191046
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Details
CARLTON CURLIEU
Carlton Curlieu Hall
SP 69 NE
3/24
19.10.51
GV II*
Country house. Dated 1636, possibly with earlier origins with alterations
late C17 and c1800. Ashlar with stone dressings and Swithland slate roof with
moulded stone ridge and side stacks. String courses and stone coped Dutch
gables with semicircular finials. Entrance front of 2 1/2 storeys and basement
with 5 gables and windows. On lower 2 storeys stone mullion and transom
windows with moulded eared architraves and mostly leaded lights. The
stonework and window at either end project forward on lower 2 floors and have
blocked 1-lights on ends. On 2nd floor, windows have moulded stone frames and
wooden mullion and transom windows. Central stone 2 storey porch. Rounded
archway with faceted keystone and a Roman Doric column either side. Stone
cartouche of arms over. Door with Tudor arch. 3 semicircular stone
steps. 2-light stone mullion windows in basement, some blocked. 1 storey
extension on left end. Avenue front, to right, has 3 Dutch gables, 3 paired
6/6 sashes on lower 2 floors and a 6/6 sash in each gable. Moulded eared
architraves on lower 2 floors. Blocked window. Rainwater heads here and on
entrance front dated 1871. 1 storey extensions in rear kitchen yard. Inside
are reset C17 panelling, C18 oak and pine panelling, bolection moulded stone
and marble fireplaces, and probably later C17 oak staircase with heavy turned
balusters and ball finials. Gable overlooking kitchen yard is inscribed
"Sep.24, 1636 I.O.T.O." The seat of the Palmer family since the C17. V.C.H.,
Vol. V, and Pevsner.
Listing NGR: SP6955697114
Selected Sources
Books and journalsPage, W , The Victoria History of the County of Leicester, (1964)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Leicestershire and Rutland, (1960)
Map
National Grid Reference: SP 69556 97114
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