Former West Bridge Mills

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:: Westbridge Place, 1, Westbridge Close, Leicester, LE3 5DR

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Official list entry

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

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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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

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Legacy System number:: 188837
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.