8, BOWLING GREEN STREET
8, BOWLING GREEN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200511
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1975
- List Entry Name:
- 8, BOWLING GREEN STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 8, BOWLING GREEN STREET
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- 2001-09-01
- Reference:
- IOE01/03556/01
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200511
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1975
- List Entry Name:
- 8, BOWLING GREEN STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 8, BOWLING GREEN 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:
- 8, BOWLING GREEN 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 58819 04241
Details
BOWLING GREEN STREET 1. 5304 No 8 SK 5804 SE 3/217 II 2. Dated 1865. Gothic style. Red brickwith ashlar dressings. Steep-pitched slate roof with crenellated chimney stacks at ends. Two storeys. Centre: carved stone foliage eaves cornice, three windows, first floor two-light gothic pointed arch windows with plate tracery, shafts with carved capitals, deep band at first floor level, ground floor large four-light stone mullion/ transom windows with cusped ogee-head lights, plain brick buttress between. To left: slight projection, gabled, three storeys, one window, two-light gothic windows, ground and second floor cusped heads, first floor carved tympanum. Right: slight projection in ashlar with pyramidal roof, ground floor large high-pointed-arch entrance with carved mouldings and double order of shafts, original doors with richly carved panels of foliage, first floor finely carved stone splayed bay window on moulded and carved corbel, shouldered headed lights and carving between, carved foliage to cornice and stone roof. Above head of blind arch containing date and crockets to drip mould with finial - flanked by cusped circular recesses. Area railings missing except for heavy ornate cast-iron gate and piers to right of entrance.
Listing NGR: SK5881904241
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 188584
- 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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