Kingstone Store
KINGSTONE STORE, BELGRAVE GATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250234
- Date first listed:
- 31-Mar-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Kingstone Store
- Statutory Address:
- KINGSTONE STORE, BELGRAVE GATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250234
- Date first listed:
- 31-Mar-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Kingstone Store
- Statutory Address 1:
- KINGSTONE STORE, BELGRAVE GATE
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:
- KINGSTONE STORE, BELGRAVE GATE
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 58962 04992
Details
The following building shall be added to the list;
LEICESTER BELGRAVE GATE SK 5804 NE (east side) 1/10041 Kingstone Store II Store. 1937. By Raymond McGrath for Sir Charles Keene. Steel-framed with reinforced concrete front and brick rear walls. Flat roof. L plan, wing to rear. 3 storeys of continuous curtain wall glazing with pink Vitrolite glass between storeys held in place by copper strips. Projecting canopy over ground floor. Rear rendered late C20. INTERIOR. Retains open plan with ceilings supported on square piers and round to front. Open-well staircase from ground to 2nd floor. Original offices removed. Occasional archways to the adjoining buildings either side, which are now part of the store but which are not of special architectural interest. This is one of the few surviving works by McGrath and the front is only the 2nd known example of curtain walling in the UK and the first without intervening mullions. McGrath was the joint author of 'Glass in Architecture and Decoration' published in 1937 and his house for the same client in Gaulby, Leics., is included in the list for that parish.
Listing NGR: SK5896204992
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 432509
- 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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