34-38, RATCLIFFE ROAD
34-38, RATCLIFFE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1096041
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jan-2003
- List Entry Name:
- 34-38, RATCLIFFE ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 34-38, RATCLIFFE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1096041
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jan-2003
- List Entry Name:
- 34-38, RATCLIFFE ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 34-38, RATCLIFFE ROAD
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:
- 34-38, RATCLIFFE ROAD
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 60440 01817
Details
718/0/10188 RATCLIFFE ROAD
20-JAN-03 34-38
II
Range of three attached houses. 1893; by Amos Hall of Leicester; No.38 extended late C20. Red brick in English bond and with stone dressings on north front. Steeply-pitched clay plain tile roof with coped gables. Large brick axial stacks with polygonal shafts.
PLAN: Range of three large houses with symmetrical front facing gardens to south and rear elevation to north with small walled courtyard to road.
Domestic free-style.
EXTERIOR: 2 storey, attic and cellar. Almost symmetrical south garden front, the houses to left and right project with twin gables, the larger outer gables have large 2-storey brick polygonal bay windows with brick pilastered ground floor windows and 3-light windows above with raised centre lights in elliptically arched recesses. The attic windows above are shallow bows, the left replaced; the central house has recessed 2-bay front with elaborate composition of timber bay windows, the ground floor bowed with pedimented garden doors, the first floor with small panes and pedimented centre lights, the right with integral side-lights; two attic dormers in roof above with segmental pediments. Rear [north] gabled at centre with stone bands and stone window frames and small courtyard enclosed by tall brick wall with elliptial arched carriageway and round arch to pedestrian doorway.
INTERIOR of No.36 has many original features including chimneypieces with eared moulded architraves, ceiling cornices and joinery such as panelled doors, butler's pantry cupboards and a fine open-well moulded string staircase with a heavy balustrade of turned balusters and square newels; 2-bay arcaded screen at foot of stairs.
An interesting example a range of large late Victorian houses well designed in the Domestic free-style by a local architect.
SOURCE: Buildings of England, p.264.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 489933
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Leicestershire and Rutland, (1960), 264
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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