Conservation Areas in Harborough district - Lowesby Conservation Area

Lowesby is a very small settlement strongly associated with Lowesby Hall (Listed Grade II*) and its estate. The Conservation Area includes the Hall, its outbuildings and its gardens, but not the site of the deserted mediaeval village which is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.  

It is an agricultural village where the relationship of Hall and village is important; the village consists of church, former school, and a small number of houses and pairs of estate cottages. These buildings are loosely spread. The estate cottages of various dates are at the highest part of the village. A larger area of open green with pump and telephone kiosk adds to the open spaciousness of the village, although only its pump and telephone kiosk are actually in the Conservation Area. The church and facing school room flank the road leading down to Lowesby Hall. The tiny and pretty Victorian school room stands in its own land, the church and churchyard falls down the valley towards the large red brick 18th Century Hall whose own gardens, partially laid out by Lutyens, fall down the valley. Trees in the churchyard and around the Hall contribute to the character of this small remote settlement.  

There is a large modern farmyard partly within the Conservation Area between the school room and the hall. The new buildings are in brick and slate and harmonise with the concept of an 18th Century estate farm.

Lowesby Conservation Area map