Former Collegiate School Leicester

The Rowans, College Street, Leicester, LE2 0JJ

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1183455
Date first listed:: 14-Mar-1975
List Entry Name:: Former Collegiate School Leicester
Statutory Address:: The Rowans, College Street, Leicester, LE2 0JJ

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1183455
Date first listed:: 14-Mar-1975
List Entry Name:: Former Collegiate School Leicester
Statutory Address 1:: The Rowans, College Street, Leicester, LE2 0JJ

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: The Rowans, College Street, Leicester, LE2 0JJ

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: City of Leicester (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SK 59580 04019

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 16/05/2018

SK 5904 8/379

COLLEGE STREET The Rowans Former Collegiate School Leicester

(Formerly listed as Collegiate School Leicester, COLLEGE STREET)

II 1835-6 by J.G. Weightman. Built of white brick with stone dressings, consisting of central hall flanked by classrooms.

Hall facade in Perpendicular style with a five-light four-centred arch window, a niche on each side, and above a circular clerestory window have multifoil cusps in gable end with moulded coping and pinnacles. Single-storey classrooms on each side of hall linked with an interior corridor and externally with castellated and gabled frontage pierced with Tudor-Gothic windows, the whole surmounted with pinnacles the tops of which are missing. The east classroom has extra storey added later C19.

Entrances on north and south ends with ornate doorways. Two symmetrically placed bay windows at each end of main facade. All windows except east and west ends of great hall are in Tudor-Gothic style, rectangular with stone mullions and dripmoulds.

Modern low single-storey flat-roof laboratory attached to front. The great hall roof with hammer-beams and curved braces resting on stone corbels, tie-beams supported by king-posts terminating in decorative bosses.

Listing NGR: SK5958004019

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Legacy System number:: 188622
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.