Summary
The Oadby Court Conservation Area was first designated in 1997 it is a very small conservation area which contains a large Victorian house and part of its original extensive grounds on an area on which five 'modern movement' style houses were built in 1933. A Conservation Area Appraisal and Development Control Guidance |was drawn up and adopted in March 2007.
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Location
The Oadby Court Conservation Area is a small area just to the west of the main A6 around 3.5 miles south of central Leicester. A grass verge with extensive tree planting helps shield Oadby Court from the busy dual carriageway and is an important aspect of the area's setting.
Description
The 1930s houses (which give the Conservation Area its name) are the most visible of the buildings and despite considerable extensions and alterations maintain their cubed forms and white rendered walls. A number of fine and very mature trees surround the Victorian house which has been in office use for many years. These have considerable value to the amenity of the area and the setting of both this house and the 1930s houses. A handful of similarly mature trees survive in the gardens of Oadby Court; the remnants of the tree screen which originally enclosed the south eastern corner of the Victorian property’s extensive grounds. The Victorian house (built as Oadby Hill and now called Brook's House) is a very attractive mid nineteenth century villa and externally little altered. Part of the eastern and western tree belts survive and help buffer the building from the busy A6 road and the newer houses. Oadby Court is therefore a small enclave, well protected by mature trees and to some extent by the verge and planting left over following the realignment of the road in the late twentieth century.