HM PRISON GATEHOUSE INCLUDING ADJOINING BUILDING TO NORTH AND SOUTH AND THE PERIMETER WALL

HM PRISON GATEHOUSE INCLUDING ADJOINING BUILDING TO NORTH AND SOUTH AND THE PERIMETER WALL, WELFORD ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1361052
Date first listed:: 14-Mar-1975
List Entry Name:: HM PRISON GATEHOUSE INCLUDING ADJOINING BUILDING TO NORTH AND SOUTH AND THE PERIMETER WALL
Statutory Address:: HM PRISON GATEHOUSE INCLUDING ADJOINING BUILDING TO NORTH AND SOUTH AND THE PERIMETER WALL, WELFORD ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1361052
Date first listed:: 14-Mar-1975
List Entry Name:: HM PRISON GATEHOUSE INCLUDING ADJOINING BUILDING TO NORTH AND SOUTH AND THE PERIMETER WALL
Statutory Address 1:: HM PRISON GATEHOUSE INCLUDING ADJOINING BUILDING TO NORTH AND SOUTH AND THE PERIMETER WALL, WELFORD ROAD

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: HM PRISON GATEHOUSE INCLUDING ADJOINING BUILDING TO NORTH AND SOUTH AND THE PERIMETER WALL, WELFORD ROAD

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 58812 03674

Details

WELFORD ROAD 1. 5304 (East Side) H.M. Prison Gatehouse including adjoining building to North and South and the SK 5803 9/349 Perimeter Wall II 2. 1825-8 by William Parsons the County Surveyor. With addition of 1844-6 by M.J. Dain. Gatehouse of ashlar with castellated parapet on corbel table and large circular castellated angle turrets with arrow loops moulded, four-centred arch entrance in recess with moulded depressed arch and mock portcullis. To right and left matching blocks of 1844-6. ashlar two storeys, smaller circular turrets with battlements, Governor's House on left projects with stone mullion/transom windows, stone chimneys with moulded cornices. Behind is high unbroked perimeter wall of 1825-8, red brick, slightly battered, circular buttress turrets at intervals and larger angle turrets, stone caps and coping to turrets and walls. The following building within the perimeter wall are not of sufficient quality for listing. Polygonal beeplike tower of 1828 at centre, brick, castellated, with six-spoke wings, some demolished. Circa 1846/7 large rectangular block with slate hipped roof with two large hexagonal chimneys.

Listing NGR: SK5881203674

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Legacy System number:: 188835
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.