59 Highcross Street

59, Highcross Street, Leicester, LE1 4PG

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1074011
Date first listed:: 05-Jan-1950
List Entry Name:: 59 Highcross Street
Statutory Address:: 59, Highcross Street, Leicester, LE1 4PG

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1074011
Date first listed:: 05-Jan-1950
Date of most recent amendment:: 28-Sep-1990
List Entry Name:: 59 Highcross Street
Statutory Address 1:: 59, Highcross Street, Leicester, LE1 4PG

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:: 59, Highcross Street, Leicester, LE1 4PG

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 58346 04643

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 18/07/2018

SK 5804 7/119 HIGHCROSS STREET (east side) No 59

(Formerly listed as Nos 59 and 59 1/2, HIGH CROSS STREET, previously listed as No 59)

5.1.50

II Large town house. Late C18. Red brick; slate roof. Central entrance hall with stairs to rear; service area to left contained within main range and converted into a separate dwelling in early-mid C19. Three storeys.

Exterior: five-window range, regular, originally symmetrical. Moulded eaves cornice; plat band. All windows under wedge brick arches; twelve-pane hornless sashes to first floor; Nine-pane to second floor. Much altered shop front (at time of survey). Ground floor rendered with two renewed twelve-pane sash windows to right of central doorway with bricked-in side panels under large semi-circular traceried fanlight. Left return with unhorned sash windows; slightly projecting stepped porch, the doorway moulded with plain glazed fanlight; six-panel door. Right hand wall rebuilt.

Interior: (partly inspected) with dog-leg stair (moulded tread ends, stick balusters and turned newels); deeply chamfered ceiling beams; some cornices and a simple marble fireplace surround to first floor. Gypsum floor to attic.

Listing NGR: SK5834604643

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Legacy System number:: 188664
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.