8, TOWER STREET, 9-29, UPPER KING STREET
8, TOWER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1074784
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1975
- List Entry Name:
- 8, TOWER STREET, 9-29, UPPER KING STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 8, TOWER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1074784
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1975
- List Entry Name:
- 8, TOWER STREET, 9-29, UPPER KING STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 8, TOWER STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- 9-29, UPPER KING 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.
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:
- 8, TOWER STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 9-29, UPPER KING 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 58853 03753
Details
UPPER KING STREET 1. 5304 SK 5803 9/64 Nos 9 to 29 (odd) II GV 2. Including No 8 Tower Street. Early C19 terrace range of three storeys in stucco. Paired pilasters with anthemion ornament divide the windows. Two moulded stucco bands throughout. Nos 11 to 29 have modillion eaves cornice. No 21 to 29 have no modillions and the cornice breaks forward over pilasters, there is a small panelled parapet. Nos 11 to 27 have two windows each, the rest have one, all in moulded shouldered architraves, sashes with glazing bars (Nos 21 to 27 without glazing bars). Nos 9, 11 and 27 and No 8 Tower Street have pilastered doorcases with hoods on console brackets and rectangular fanlights. The rest have recessed doors in pairs with segmental plain arched entrances. Five-panel doors and rectangular fanlights, Nos 15 to 25 replaced by modern glazed doors. All have blind panels in each storey above doorways. No 11 and No 8 Tower Street are the end elevations, three windows, some blind, same design.
Nos 1 to 29 (odd) and No 8 Tower Street form a group.
Listing NGR: SK5885303753
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 188824
- 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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