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Main Street, OAKHAM, LE15 9LT

Numbers 40, 42 and 44 are a row of cottages, now one house. Dated 1765 with the right bay slightly later. Constructed of coursed ironstone rubble stone with freestone quoins, all under a slate roof. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1236939 Lyddington is a pretty rural village in the county of Rutland, some 20 miles east of Peterborough and 18 miles southeast of Leicester. The village stretches out in a linear fashion over a mile with cottages of reddish limestone arranged on either side of the main road. The village is home to the Bede House, the remains of a medieval Bishop's Palace.

Part of a long street of pretty ironstone houses.

The cottage closest to the camera dates from the early nineteenth century https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1264372?section=official-list-entry The cottages to the left (now one house) bear a datestone of 1765 https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1236939?section=official-list-entry

Early on a fine October afternoon. The church spire shows above the trees in the distance on the right.

Number 71 Main Street and the attached outbuilding were built in the 17th century and altered in both the 19th and 20th centuries. Constructed of coursed ironstone rubble stone, the house with a Collyweston stone slate roof, the outbuilding with a slate roof. Some original internal features remain. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1264409 Lyddington is a pretty rural village in the county of Rutland, some 20 miles east of Peterborough and 18 miles southeast of Leicester. The village stretches out in a linear fashion over a mile with cottages of reddish limestone arranged on either side of the main road. The village is home to the Bede House, the remains of a medieval Bishop's Palace.

Swan House, number 36 Main Street, is dated 1674 and was greatly restored circa 1973 with one wing partly rebuilt. Constructed of coursed ironstone rubble stone with freestone dressings and concrete dressings to the south wing, all under a Collyweston stone slate roof. Some original internal features survive. The south end of the house was altered in 1849 to form a Wesleyan chapel, but the property was converted back to a single house again in 1973. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1236937 Lyddington is a pretty rural village in the county of Rutland, some 20 miles east of Peterborough and 18 miles southeast of Leicester. The village stretches out in a linear fashion over a mile with cottages of reddish limestone arranged on either side of the main road. The village is home to the Bede House, the remains of a medieval Bishop's Palace.

Sunlight and shadow early on a fine October afternoon.

Number 28 main Street is a late 18th or early 19th century remodelling of an earlier building. Constructed of coursed ironstone rubble stone under a concrete tile roof. There is a 20th century rear extension. Listed, for group value, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1236934 Lyddington is a pretty rural village in the county of Rutland, some 20 miles east of Peterborough and 18 miles southeast of Leicester. The village stretches out in a linear fashion over a mile with cottages of reddish limestone arranged on either side of the main road. The village is home to the Bede House, the remains of a medieval Bishop's Palace.

Badgers Retreat, number 46 Main Street, is most unusual. An 18th century cottage, set gable end to the street, of coursed ironstone rubble stone has been heightened in the late 20th century in red brick, The wing along the road built in the 2010s has been constructed partly in ironstone and partly in red brick. The result is most ugly and should not have been permitted. Lyddington is a pretty rural village in the county of Rutland, some 20 miles east of Peterborough and 18 miles southeast of Leicester. The village stretches out in a linear fashion over a mile with cottages of reddish limestone arranged on either side of the main road. The village is home to the Bede House, the remains of a medieval Bishop's Palace.

Charming Ironstone Cottages line the long main street. Several of them have datestones and the changes of style can be studied, e.g. from Jacobean mullioned windows with straight hoods in the Classical style. In the 18C the masons chose different coloured stones to give a banded effect. Lyndon House has mullioned windows, unusual for ironstone buildings. The house in this photograph is dated 1674 and has a continuous dripstone above the ground floor windows.