Alliance House

6, Bishop Street, Leicester, LE1 6AF

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1074060
Date first listed:
14-Mar-1975
Statutory Address:
6, Bishop Street, Leicester, LE1 6AF
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1074060
Date first listed:
14-Mar-1975
Statutory Address 1:
6, Bishop Street, Leicester, LE1 6AF

Location

Statutory Address:
6, Bishop Street, Leicester, LE1 6AF

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 58875 04321

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 23/11/2020

SK 5804 SE
3/214

BISHOP STREET
No 6 (Alliance House)

GV
II
1885-1888. Architect E. Burgess. Former Liberal Club. Red brick and ashlar dressings. Six window bays. Ground floor completely altered, plate glass, polished granite and large fascia. Above bays divided by brick pilasters supporting entablature over first and second floors, stone mullion/transom windows in moulded architraves. First floor right recessed three-bay arcaded balcony feature with splayed bay window at centre and balustrade. Steep-pitched tiled roof with two pyramid-shaped sections, with finials, partly concealed by round-arched pilastered features rising from second floor parapet. Included for group value.

All the listed buildings in Bishop Street together with The Town Hall, Fountain and War Memorial, Town Hall Square, and Nos 6-8, The Royal Hotel, Nos 17, 19 and 21 Horsefair Street form a group around Town Hall Square.

Listing NGR: SK5887504321

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188580
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