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Formerly known as Mountsorrel Hall it was a vicarage until 1983. A copy of this building was erected in 1790 in Liverpool, and in that house the politician and former Prime Minister, William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) was born.
Location Type Completed [note 1] Date designated Grid ref. [note 2] Geo-coordinates Entry number [note 3] Image; Leicester Abbey Ruins Abbey Park, City of Leicester: Abbey: Founded 1143: 5 January 1950: 1074051: Leicester Abbey Ruins
The Church of St Bartholomew and Farnham Chapel is a Grade I listed building. [20] Quorn House, off Meeting Street, is a Grade II listed building, built in 1820, and was the seat of the Farnham family from c.1260 until 1993 when it was sold to fitness instructor Rosemary Conley, whose business occupied the building until 2015.
Once listed, severe restrictions are imposed on the modifications allowed to a building's structure or its fittings. In England, the authority for listing under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 [2] rests with Historic England, a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport ...
The Gate House, Leicester Castle City of Leicester: Gatehouse: 1445-59: 5 January 1950: 1200573: The Gate House, Leicester Castle Tomb of Andrew Lord Rollo to the North East of St Margaret's Church
A garden centre (Commonwealth English spelling; U.S. nursery or garden center) is a retail operation that sells plants and related products for the domestic garden as its primary business. It is a development from the concept of the retail plant nursery but with a wider range of outdoor products and on-site facilities.
To the south it borders the City of Leicester, about 20 km away from Loughborough. There is a moderately urbanised A6 corridor between the two population centres and close to the River Soar , including Quorn, Barrow-on-Soar , Mountsorrel , Birstall , Sileby , Thurmaston , Syston , Queniborough and East Goscote .
British Garden Centres (legally incorporated as Woodthorpe Hall Garden Centres Ltd.), is a British chain of garden centres based in Alford, Lincolnshire, England. [1] By 2022, it operated over sixty locations. [2] [3] It is the UK’s largest garden centre operator by number of sites. [4] [5]