Former Collegiate School Leicester
The Rowans, College Street, Leicester, LE2 0JJ
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1183455
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Former Collegiate School Leicester
- Statutory Address:
- The Rowans, College Street, Leicester, LE2 0JJ
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1183455
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Former Collegiate School Leicester
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Rowans, College Street, Leicester, LE2 0JJ
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:
- The Rowans, College Street, Leicester, LE2 0JJ
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 59580 04019
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 16/05/2018
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COLLEGE STREET
The Rowans
Former Collegiate School Leicester
(Formerly listed as Collegiate School Leicester, COLLEGE STREET)
II
1835-6 by J.G. Weightman. Built of white brick with stone dressings, consisting of central hall flanked by classrooms.
Hall facade in Perpendicular style with a five-light four-centred arch window, a niche on each side, and above a circular clerestory window have multifoil cusps in gable end with moulded coping and pinnacles. Single-storey classrooms on each side of hall linked with an interior corridor and externally with castellated and gabled frontage pierced with Tudor-Gothic windows, the whole surmounted with pinnacles the tops of which are missing. The east classroom has extra storey added later C19.
Entrances on north and south ends with ornate doorways. Two symmetrically placed bay windows at each end of main facade. All windows except east and west ends of great hall are in Tudor-Gothic style, rectangular with stone mullions and dripmoulds.
Modern low single-storey flat-roof laboratory attached to front. The great hall roof with hammer-beams and curved braces resting on stone corbels, tie-beams supported by king-posts terminating in decorative bosses.
Listing NGR: SK5958004019
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 188622
- 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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