Number 45 And Attached Outbuildings And Stables

This is a house with attached outbuildings and stables, likely dating from the 17th century, but significantly refronted in 1789. A plaque on the front bears the date and the initials IEB. The front of the house is built of ironstone ashlar, with brown Uppingham stone quoins and a lintel band, along with other pale limestone dressings. The rest of the building is constructed of ironstone rubble. The roof is thatched with coped gables and 19th-century brick chimneys, featuring dentil caps to the gables and to the right of centre. The house is two storeys and an attic, with three bays. Flush limestone sill strings run along the front. The windows are 3-light casements with shaped lintels, with some early 20th-century leaded glazing and triple limestone keyblocks on the ground floor. Upper floor windows have bonded limestone jambs and single keyblocks. A blocked doorway is located between the left-hand bays, with a matching lintel and keyblock and the dated plaque above. A 6-panelled door is centrally positioned between the right-hand bays, with a plain lintel. There are also windows in the attic gables. A two-storey wing with a slate roof extends to the rear of the left-hand bay. To the right, a thatched roof extends over a cart entry and outbuilding. Beyond this is another outbuilding with 17th-century walls of banded limestone and ironstone, an altered hipped roof now covered in 20th-century asbestos slates, and three high wooden windows. At a right angle to the rear of the thatched outbuilding is an 18th-century stable range with a steeply pitched corrugated asbestos roof, a coped gable, and five board doors. The interior of the main house was not inspected. The stables were used by the Hunt family for breeding racehorses, including the winners of two Grand Nationals: "Playfair" (1888) and "Forbra" (1932).