Queens Building

Queens Building, 37-43, Rutland Street

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1246129
Date first listed:: 25-May-2001
List Entry Name:: Queens Building
Statutory Address:: Queens Building, 37-43, Rutland Street

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1246129
Date first listed:: 25-May-2001
List Entry Name:: Queens Building
Statutory Address 1:: Queens Building, 37-43, Rutland Street

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.

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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:: Queens Building, 37-43, Rutland 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 59170 04496

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 20/06/2019

718/0/10152

RUTLAND STREET Nos 37-43, Queens Building

(Formerly listed as Nos 37-43, RUTLAND STREET)

25-MAY-01

GV II Former boot warehouse, designed in 1897 by Harding and Topott of Leicester for Alfred Tyler and Sons, boot factors. Red brick with stone dressings and slate roofs with rear corner stack. Edwardian Baroque style. Corner site curving round into Queen Street.

Four storeys and attic. Sixteen-window range at first floor. The ground floor, mainly entrances or shop premises, has an arcade feature with stone banding and decoration, now mainly painted. Above this there are tall brick pilasters banded with stone and with composite capitals. These link the first and second floors and support an entablature with bracketed cornice. In between, the windows on each floor are mainly paired those to first floor with shouldered architraves and swagged keystones. Those above have Ionic columns with central blocks and a lintel band which curves inward over each window where there is a bracket to support it. Above this and the entablature is a balustrade with circular and square moulded balusters. Behind the balustrade a series of Diocletian windows echoing the arcade on the ground floor. Above this is a series of gables with oeil-de-boeuf windows.

The main entrance bay in Rutland Street has a canted bay to first floor and an octagonal lantern to the gable level with a tiled pyramidal roof. The gable ends are blank and the rear walls facing the internal angle have simple fenestration.

The INTERIOR has been altered but the entrance lobby to Rutland Street retains parts of a ornamental frieze and the lower part of the staircase has its original iron balustrade.

This building with its richly decorated facade forms an important part of a significant group of historic buildings in the area including the adjacent Church and the former Odeon Cinema opposite.

Sources: Leicestershire Record Office; Kelly’s Directory (1899).

Listing NGR: SK5916804496

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 487554
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.