1, Granby Street (Natwest) and 2, Horsefair Street

2, Horsefair Street, Leicester, LE1 5BN

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1074046
Date first listed:
14-Mar-1975
List Entry Name:
1, Granby Street (Natwest) and 2, Horsefair Street
Statutory Address:
2, Horsefair Street, Leicester, LE1 5BN
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1074046
Date first listed:
14-Mar-1975
List Entry Name:
1, Granby Street (Natwest) and 2, Horsefair Street
Statutory Address 1:
2, Horsefair Street, Leicester, LE1 5BN
Statutory Address 2:
Natwest, 1, Granby Street, Leicester, LE1 6EJ

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
2, Horsefair Street, Leicester, LE1 5BN
Statutory Address:
Natwest, 1, Granby Street, Leicester, LE1 6EJ

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 58857 04405

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 17/07/2018

SK 5804 SE
3/242

GRANBY STREET (South West Side)
No 1, Natwest Bank

(Formerly listed as Nos 1 and 3, National Westminster Bank)

II
Including 2 Horsefair Street.

1870. Architect Millican. Italianate style. Yellow brick with stone dressings. Three storeys. Corner site. Granby Street elevation six windows, Horsefair Street eight windows. Ground floor tall windows in moulded architraves with sill aprons with cornice on large console brackets. First floor moulded architraves and sill band. Over first floor large modillion cornice. Round arch second floor windows with keyblocks and continuous impost mould. Balustraded parapet with urns at corners. Chamfered quoins. Curved corner: ground and first floors rusticated and entrance with rectangular fanlight and very large console brackets supporting cornice with shallow balustered balcony to first floor three-light window. Large modern shop at ground floor right of Horsefair Street elevation.

Listing NGR: SK5885704405

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
188645
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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