Former West Bridge Mills
Westbridge Place, 1, Westbridge Close, Leicester, LE3 5DR
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1185489
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Former West Bridge Mills
- Statutory Address:
- Westbridge Place, 1, Westbridge Close, Leicester, LE3 5DR
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1185489
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Former West Bridge Mills
- Statutory Address 1:
- Westbridge Place, 1, Westbridge Close, Leicester, LE3 5DR
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:
- Westbridge Place, 1, Westbridge Close, Leicester, LE3 5DR
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 58137 04264
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 03/08/2018
SK 5804 SW
2/351
WESTBRIDGE CLOSE
No 1. Westbridge Place,
Former West Bridge Mills
(Formerly listed as West Bridge Mills (H.T.H. Peck's Factory), WEST BRIDGE STREET)
II
Circa 1850. Architect William Flint. Very large factory building, rectangular on plan, built of purple bricks with slate hipped roof, with modillions to eaves soffit and stuccoed frieze. Gabled dormers. Five storeys and attic.
East side, nine windows and three window projection on left and narrow projection on right. Segmental brick arches, metal frame windows with glazing bars. Rising from roof off centre is Italianate style tower of red brick with three-light round-arched bell openings and modillion cornice to pyramidal roof with ornate wind-vane. Ground, first and second floors of east elevation obscured by later addition. Left hand return four windows. Right hand return two windows. West elevation fourteen windows. Bands at first and third floor levels.
Listing NGR: SK5813704264
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 188837
- 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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