Wistow Hall, Including Flats, And, in Wing, Brown's Flat, Dairy Cottage, Laundry Cottage, Brew House, Forge Cottage is a Grade II* listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1951. A C17 Country house. 1 related planning application.
Wistow Hall, Including Flats, And, in Wing, Brown's Flat, Dairy Cottage, Laundry Cottage, Brew House, Forge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- third-moat-swallow
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Harborough
- Constituency
- Harborough, Oadby and Wigston MP: Neil O'Brien (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1951
- Type
- Country house
- Period
- C17
- Address
- Wistow Hall, Including Flats, And, in Wing, Brown's Flat, Dairy Cottage, Laundry Cottage, Brew House, Forge Cottage, LE8 0QF
- OS grid reference
- SP 641 958
- Coordinates
- 52.55648, -1.05504
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wistow Hall is a country house that has been converted into 11 dwellings. It dates from the early 17th century, with later alterations from the 18th century and a significant remodelling around 1815. The building features colourwashed rendered brick and a hipped roof made of Swithland slate, with colourwashed rendered ridge and truncated side stacks. It has a plinth and a parapet, forming an H plan layout.
The entrance front is two and a half storeys high and has seven 6/6 sash windows, three of which are in a recessed centre. There are five 3/3 sash dormers. On the ground floor, there are two 6/6 sashes on each wing and a one-storey addition in the central section, which has a flat roof and low parapet. A 9/9 sash window is located on either side of a French window/door with top lights. Each wing features an octagonal turret buttress with a stepped plinth and a low conical roof.
The garden front on the left has additional 6/6 and 2/2 sash windows. There is a ground floor bow window with three 2/2 sashes on the left and a two-storey bow window with three 2/2 sashes on the right. The right end has a one and a half storey wing with mostly 20th-century two-light wooden mullion and transom windows, featuring cambered brick lintels with keystones and a band with moulded brick eaves. This wing, which was formerly outbuildings, was converted into dwellings in the mid-20th century.
Inside the main range, the Entrance Hall has a coved ceiling adorned with later 18th-century stucco work, and above this is believed to be the 17th-century roof. The staircase features a later 18th-century wrought-iron balustrade, and there is 17th-century panelling, some of which may have been reset. A stone doorway with a Tudor arch is also present.
Wistow Hall was purchased by the Halford family in 1603, and the basic structure likely dates from this period. Alterations, including the creation of the Staircase Hall, were made in the later 18th century. The remodelling around 1815 included the addition of the corner turret buttresses and the entrance vestibule. Notably, Charles I stayed at Wistow before the Battle of Naseby, and he and Prince Rupert left their saddles here when changing horses during their flight after the battle; these saddles are preserved in the house.
Local climate
Wistow Hall, Including Flats, And, in Wing, Brown's Flat, Dairy Cottage, Laundry Cottage, Brew House, Forge Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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