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Bagworth Park Farmhouse

A Grade II Listed Building in Bagworth & Thornton, Leicestershire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.6737 / 52°40'25"N

Longitude: -1.3295 / 1°19'46"W

OS Eastings: 445432

OS Northings: 308657

OS Grid: SK454086

Mapcode National: GBR 7KH.6PS

Mapcode Global: WHDJ7.K232

Plus Code: 9C4WMMFC+F5

Entry Name: Bagworth Park Farmhouse

Listing Date: 28 February 1991

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1074113

English Heritage Legacy ID: 188503

ID on this website: 101074113

Location: Bagworth, Hinckley and Bosworth, Leicestershire, LE67

County: Leicestershire

District: Hinckley and Bosworth

Civil Parish: Bagworth & Thornton

Traditional County: Leicestershire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Leicestershire

Church of England Parish: Thornton St Peter

Church of England Diocese: Leicester

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Description


BAGWORTH THE HOLLOW, Thornton
SK 40 NE Lane (off)
3/54 Bagworth Park Farm-
house

- II

Farmhouse. c1800 with C19 alterations. Red brick with Swithland slate roof,
and pairs of octagonal gable stacks. Chamfered blue brick plinth and dentilated
eaves. 3 storey. South front, 3 bays with slightly projecting central bay.
Projecting gabled C19 porch with double, half-glazed doors in reeded surround.
Eitherside single inpartite plain sashes. Above a central plain sash flanked by
single inpartite plain sashes all these windows have segment headed wedge
lintel. Above again a smaller central sash, flanked by small inpartite sashes,
all with wooden lintels. To right a single storey C19, lean-to conservation or
vine house. Rear walling incorporates fragments of an older house. This house
stands moated on the site of the great house in Bagworth Park. It was held by
the Earl of Mellent at the Conquest and belonged to the Bishop of Durham in
1310. In 1472 Lord William Hastings was granted a licence to crenellate the
house. It was garrisoned for Charles I and completely devastated in the Civil
War.


Listing NGR: SK4543208657

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