SOUTHFIELDS BRANCH LIBRARY AND ATTACHED FORMER CHILD WELFARE CLINIC

SOUTHFIELDS BRANCH LIBRARY AND ATTACHED FORMER CHILD WELFARE CLINIC, SOUTHFIELDS DRIVE, LEICESTER, LE2 6QS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1250185
Date first listed:: 21-Dec-1993
List Entry Name:: SOUTHFIELDS BRANCH LIBRARY AND ATTACHED FORMER CHILD WELFARE CLINIC
Statutory Address:: SOUTHFIELDS BRANCH LIBRARY AND ATTACHED FORMER CHILD WELFARE CLINIC, SOUTHFIELDS DRIVE, LEICESTER, LE2 6QS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1250185
Date first listed:: 21-Dec-1993
List Entry Name:: SOUTHFIELDS BRANCH LIBRARY AND ATTACHED FORMER CHILD WELFARE CLINIC
Statutory Address 1:: SOUTHFIELDS BRANCH LIBRARY AND ATTACHED FORMER CHILD WELFARE CLINIC, SOUTHFIELDS DRIVE, LEICESTER, LE2 6QS

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:: SOUTHFIELDS BRANCH LIBRARY AND ATTACHED FORMER CHILD WELFARE CLINIC, SOUTHFIELDS DRIVE, LEICESTER, LE2 6QS

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 58326 00235

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 20/09/2017

SK 50 SE 17/10031

LEICESTER SOUTHFIELDS DRIVE Southfields Branch Library and attached former Child Welfare Clinic

(Formerly listed under SAFFRON LANE)

II Public library and attached child welfare clinic. 1939. Designed by Symington, Prince & Pike. Reinforced concrete with red brick cladding. Brick plinth.

Moderne style. Single storey. Complex trilobe plan, with tall circular clerestorey central hall. Entrance, to Attlee Way, has central entrance with stepped sides and a concrete canopy. Either side large casement windows. The curved corners to the west and northeast have central doors and strips of casement windows with banded brickwork below. Clinic entrance to southeast has recessed doorway with curved sides and above a recessed upper floor with double doors.

Interior retains some original built-in bookshelves, doors, stepped coving, banded columns and glazed roofs.

Listing NGR: SK5832600235

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Legacy System number:: 432450
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.