The Grand Hotel

THE GRAND HOTEL, GRANBY STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1074048
Date first listed:
14-Mar-1975
List Entry Name:
The Grand Hotel
Statutory Address:
THE GRAND HOTEL, GRANBY STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1074048
Date first listed:
14-Mar-1975
List Entry Name:
The Grand Hotel
Statutory Address 1:
THE GRAND HOTEL, GRANBY STREET

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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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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
THE GRAND HOTEL, GRANBY STREET

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 58985 04275

Details

GRANBY STREET 1. 5304 (South West Side) SK 5804 SE 3/241 The Grand Hotel II 2. 1896 and 1898, by Cecil Ogden and Simpson and Harvey. Large corner building in Franco-German Rennaissance style. Four storeys and attics. Red brick with stone dressings. Curved corner with flanking paired columns to each floor and surmounted by two-stage stone-domed cupola. Granby Street elevation has two ornate pedimental gables flanking turrets with smaller gable between, the turrets have high tent-shaped roofs. Belvoir Street elevation has very large gable, pedimented at apex, and with flanking octagonal domed turrets, with very large tripatite round-arch window to first floor banqueting hall, and pilastered round-arch lights above. All windows are stone mullion transom, some in two-storey shallow splayed bays with small pediments over. Moulded cornices at floor levels. The ground floor is taken up by modern shop fronts except for iron-canopied entrance to Granby Street and good entrance to Belvoir Street. Steep chateau-type slate roofs with dormers.

Listing NGR: SK5898504275

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Legacy System number:
188649
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.

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