Former High Cross Coffee House
101-105, High Street, Leicester, LE1 4JB
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250176
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Former High Cross Coffee House
- Statutory Address:
- 101-105, High Street, Leicester, LE1 4JB
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250176
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Former High Cross Coffee House
- Statutory Address 1:
- 101-105, High Street, Leicester, LE1 4JB
- Statutory Address 2:
- 17, Highcross Street, Leicester, LE1 4PF
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:
- 101-105, High Street, Leicester, LE1 4JB
- Statutory Address:
- 17, Highcross Street, Leicester, LE1 4PF
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 58403 04532
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 18/07/2018
SK 5804
7/10006
LEICESTER
HIGH STREET (north side)
Nos 101-105 and No 17 Highcross Street
Former High Cross Coffee House
(Formerly listed as Former High Cross Coffee House, now Liverpool Victoria Insurance and 101 Sports, HIGH STREET)
II
Former Coffee House. c1895. Designed by Edward Burgess. Red brick with painted ashlar dressings and plain tile roofs. Three brick stacks. Moulded wooden cornice. Three storey.
High Street front has central double doors in moulded ashlar surround flanked by Doric columns. Either side are two shop windows, with flanking panelled pilasters. Above a central two storey bay window with tripartite glazing bar sashes and below each window a pargeted panel. To the right two similar windows, and to the left two glazing bar sashes, then another tripartite bay and beyond a further bay with single sashes. Attached to the right a lower shop wing with a round headed doorway and an altered shop front. The canted corner has a pair of double doors flanked by Doric columns with above a two storey bay with a glazing bar sash and pargeted panels between.
Highcross Street front has three shop windows to the right with pilaster panels between, then a round headed doorway and a carriage arch with a segmental pedimented surround. Above two two storey bay windows with tripartite glazing bar sashes and below each window a pargeted panel, to the right a similar single sash bay window. To the left three glazing bar sashes to each floor.
Listing NGR: SK5840304532
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 432440
- 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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