2 AND 2A, SAWDAY STREET
2 AND 2A, SAWDAY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119770
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jun-1998
- List Entry Name:
- 2 AND 2A, SAWDAY STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 2 AND 2A, SAWDAY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119770
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jun-1998
- List Entry Name:
- 2 AND 2A, SAWDAY STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2 AND 2A, SAWDAY 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:
- 2 AND 2A, SAWDAY 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 58606 03129
Details
SK 5803 LEICESTER SAWDAY STREET
(south side)
718/9/10088 Numbers 2 and 2A
GV II
Rectory, now house and flat. 1911, converted c1980. Designed by Stockdale Harrison of Leicester. Red brick with ashlar dressings and tile patterning. Steep bell-canted Swithland slate roofs with plain gables and tiled kneelers. 3 large plain brick stacks. High quality cast-iron rainwater furniture. PLAN: L-plan. EXTEPIOR: 2 storey plus attics. Glazing bar casement windows throughout. South garden front has 2 window front. 2 wooden canted bay windows linked by continuous flat lead roof with between 2 glazed doors with segment heads, rounded jambs and ornate curved wooden brackets supporting linking roof. Continuous tile band at lintel level. Above 2 large 3-light cross casements with flat tiled hoods and tile band, above 2 brick and tile hoods. Above in 2 tall gables single 2-light casements with hoods and patterned tiling in upper gables. Central ornate lead rainwater hopper, dated 1911, and downpipe. Set back to right single storey wing with single 3-light cross casement. Above tile band. North entrance front has irregular fenestration with projecting service wing to right. To left projecting 2 storey gabled porch with ashlar moulded 4-centred arched doorway with lintel dated, 1911. Inner doorway has Tudor style door. Above 3-light casement with tile cill band and tile hood, chequered tile patterning to upper gable. Set back to left single storey wing with single casement window. Set back to right 2 similar windows with low eaves hood and above single raking dormer window with 2-light casement. Beyond to right 3 storey gabled stair-turret with high set 3-light casement window with tile cill and lintel bands. Projecting service wing to right has east front with large 3-light cross casement with smaller lights below. Above tiny casement with cill band. Remaining facade blank. North front of projecting wing has single window gabled front with plain buttresses at either corner. To right single doorway with segment head and service gate beyond, to left single 3-light window with tile hood. Above large cross-casement with tile hood and cill bands. Upper gable has chequered tile patterning. INTEPIOR: retains original plaster coving, wooden skirting, doors and door surrounds. Original main dog-leg staircase with barley sugar balusters. 3 original wooden fireplaces survive with coloured tile inserts, the hallway retains unusual tile fireplace. Single cast-iron Art Nouveau style fireplace on top floor. No 2A has inserted modern staircase.
Listing NGR: SK5860603129
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469324
- 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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