Nook Farmhouse, Bottesford

English Heritage List Entry Number: 1075064

Heritage Category: Listing Grade: II

Location: NOOK FARMHOUSE, 16, PINFOLD LANE, Bottesford, Melton, Leicestershire

Farmhouse, now without a farm. Late C16, altered C20. Probably ironstone under the whitewashed roughcast. Pantile roof. West side has C20 outshuts to ground floor. First floor retains 2 C17 casements, the left one of 4 lights, the right one renewed. Late C20 casements and door to east side in 3 bays. Gabled roof with internal gable-end stacks on high thatching parapets. Outshuts to north and south gable ends with late C20 details.

SK 80231 39165

Creator

Neil Fortey

Date of creation

8/8/2017

Date of coverage

1550-1950

Place

Bottesford

Contributor

English Heritage website

Reference number

BOT/047/037

This catalogue record comes from: Bottesford Local History Archive

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Just came across this information about our house. We would love to know any other information you have.
By Charlotte Reavley (04/01/2018)
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Hi Charlotte, I wish there was a lot to add regarding the history of this lovely old house. I do have a small set of photographs taken in 2010 when Mrs Reavley kindly showed me around. One of these shows a 1738 date stone, though I confess I can’t recall whereabouts in the house it is. This stone also shows a heart, and so may well commemorate a marriage rather than the building of the house itself, which is therefore probably older, perhaps from the 1600s. The Listed Buildings surveyor may have been pushing it to say that it is late 16th Century, but he may have had good reasons for making this claim. If correct, it would make it about the same age as the Rutland Flats (which dates to the 1590s), which I find hard to believe. There are a few references to the Farm in Michael Honeybone’s ‘Book of Bottesford’. One says that in 1799 it belonged to a man named Moses Calvert. Later it belonged to Richard Kettleborrow, who died in 1857 worth £4993 13s 8d, though after his debts had been paid there was only £444 5s 5d remaining. I’ll see if I can dig out more about who owned the farm and when. Neil Fortey
By Neil Fortey (07/01/2018)