The Thomas Cook Building
The Thomas Cook Building, 5, Gallowtree Gate, Leicester, LE1 5AD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1074043
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1972
- List Entry Name:
- The Thomas Cook Building
- Statutory Address:
- The Thomas Cook Building, 5, Gallowtree Gate, Leicester, LE1 5AD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1074043
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1972
- List Entry Name:
- The Thomas Cook Building
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Thomas Cook Building, 5, Gallowtree Gate, Leicester, LE1 5AD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- The Thomas Cook Building, 5, Gallowtree Gate, Leicester, LE1 5AD
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 58764 04591
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 16/05/2018
SK 5804 NE
1/237
GALLOWTREE GATE (West side)
No. 5, The Thomas Cook Building
(Formerly listed as The Thomas Cook Building, GALLOWTREE GATE)
31.10.72
II
Dated 1894. Architects Goddard and Paget. Three storeys and attic. Ceramic front. Four bays wide. First floor with carved arches between piers with ornamental Ionic half-columns in front; balustraded balcony between. Entablature over with ornamental frieze of railway engines etc. Above this, rather similar treatment with three-light mullion and transom windows. Frieze inscribed "1841 T. Cook and Son 1894". Three-light windows to attic, single pilasters, with four small Flemish gables above. Modern shop front. This is a refacing and alteration of an earlier building. Thomas Cook died in 1892 and the facade may have been intended as a memorial to him.
Listing NGR: SK5876404591
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 188640
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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