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
Country
England
Date first listed
19 October 1951
Type
Country house
Period
C17
Source
Historic England listing

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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.

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