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Swithland Hall

A Grade II Listed Building in Swithland, Leicestershire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.7086 / 52°42'30"N

Longitude: -1.1732 / 1°10'23"W

OS Eastings: 455958

OS Northings: 312647

OS Grid: SK559126

Mapcode National: GBR 8LM.46G

Mapcode Global: WHDJ3.Y5HV

Plus Code: 9C4WPR5G+CP

Entry Name: Swithland Hall

Listing Date: 25 July 1979

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1074662

English Heritage Legacy ID: 189148

ID on this website: 101074662

Location: Charnwood, Leicestershire, LE12

County: Leicestershire

District: Charnwood

Civil Parish: Swithland

Traditional County: Leicestershire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Leicestershire

Church of England Parish: Swithland St Leonard

Church of England Diocese: Leicester

Tagged with: English country house

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Description


SWITHLAND MAIN STREET (South Side)
SK 51 SE
4/92
Swithland Hall
25.7.79
II
Mansion partially completed by 1834 and finished by 1852. Designed by
James Pennethorne for G.J. Danvers-Butler, later Earl of Lanesborough.
Granite and slate rubble stone and brick wholly stuccoed and painted, with
Swithland slate roofs behind a parapet. Symmetrical stuccoed chimney stacks
with flues grouped in 2, 3 and 4's. A central block and 2 wings in a
restrained neo-classical style with banded rustication to ground floor,
1st floor sill band and dentilled cornice. 2 storeys, with in part a sunken
basement, of mostly 6/6 or tripartite sashes. Entrance front has 1 storey
porch with 4 paired Greek Doric fluted columns up 4 stone steps. Within a
2 leaved door with side lights and long overlight in 4 panels with astragals.
To either side a pedimented section with scroll-headed tripartite below and
Grecian oriel above with sash beyond. Wings either side then project forwards:
3 sashes both floors to sides and ends with one blank either side. On ends
2 low curving walls masking basements. On outer sides various sashes and
entrances to basements. Central block of garden front projects forward,
1-3-1, with central canted bay carried upwards to 2nd storey, with a large
carved tablet of the Danvers-Butler arms in the centre. Sashes either side
and below with ground floor central sash having partly glazed doors approached
by 2 stone steps. Urn on top of this section's roof. Further canted bays
on the ends of the block: 1 to right end and 2 to left. Further sashes on
rear of wings. Projecting from that to right a 1 storey flat-roofed ballroom
with central canted bay. Inside an entrance vestibule with semi-circular
ends leads to staircase hall with oak staircase of c1834. Turned and fluted
oak balustrade. Good decoration of room to left of vestibule probably of
same date. Elsewhere simple fireplaces, cornices and all original doors.
1852 on wing rainwater heads.


Listing NGR: SK5595812647

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