Conservation Areas in Harborough district - Tugby Conservation Area

The Tugby Conservation Area comprises most of the village but excludes the 1970s development of Wellfield Close and the subsidiary development north of the main A47 Leicester/Peterborough Road. It also excludes Keythorpe Hall and associated lodge cottages and estate buildings as there are set apart from the village.

The core of the village forming its Conservation Area lies just to the south of the main road (A47) having the church of St. Thomas a Becket and its former vicarage at the northern-most end. The church is a hill top church and its squat Norman tower shows between the churchyard trees. The rest of the settlement and conservation area tumbles down from the church along Main Street and the Hallaton Road. Views to the village from the south show only the hill top church above the trees amongst which are the village houses. The longer Main Street drops steeply below the church and bends by a small green into a valley. It is a no through road with granite kerbs which ends in a farm yard. There are a number of former farmhouses and farmyards down this sinuous road including Model Farmhouse in stone set at an angle to the road with a range of single storey buildings behind with a pantile roof. Chapel Lane, between Main Street and the church to which it is linked by an alleyway is an area of closely spaced buildings, mainly red brick and slate but including the elevated Tugby House and the lower Lane Farmhouse, ironstone but raised in red brick.

The character of and interest in the open area near the junction of Main Street, Chapel Lane and Wellfield Close lies in the changes in levels and the pair of red brick cottages with Swithland slate roof and central diagonal composite chimney stack. Such a stack is also found on a pair of stone cottages at the lower end of Main Street. The Hallaton Road is higher and overlooks the lower Main Street and intervening Wellfield Close.

The buildings at Tugby are varied and mainly fairly humble vernacular, they are of stone, or brick, or mixed. with stone plinths, many are rendered. Slate roofs predominate though a little thatch survives as do pantiles on outbuildings.

Tugby Conservation Area map