Former nurses home and attached garden wall
Diana House, 73, Aylestone Road, Leicester, LE2 7LL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1263348
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Former nurses home and attached garden wall
- Statutory Address:
- Diana House, 73, Aylestone Road, Leicester, LE2 7LL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1263348
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Former nurses home and attached garden wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- Diana House, 73, Aylestone Road, Leicester, LE2 7LL
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:
- Diana House, 73, Aylestone Road, Leicester, LE2 7LL
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:
- SK5867603273
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 02/05/2018
SK 5803
9/10046
LEICESTER
AYLESTONE ROAD (west side)
Number 73, Diana House and attached garden wall
(formerly listed as Number 73, The Nurses Home and attached garden wall)
GV
II
Former nurses home. 1878-80 with minor C20 alterations. Designed by Goddard & Paget. Red brick with brick and terracotta dressings. Plain tile roofs and tall brick stacks. Moulded cill and lintel bands.
Three storey plus attic. Three bay front, with doorway to right in moulded surround with overlight and segmental pediment. Central pair of glazing bar sashes flanked by two storey canted bay windows, that to the right projects. Above a single tall central sash with a balcony supported on three stone brackets with iron balustrade. Above another sash with a datestone below, on eitherside are pairs of sashes, those to left topped by a pediment, those to right topped by a curved gable.
Plainer Filbert Street front has a central door with overlight and to right a single sash and to the left three sashes. Above two central sashes with three sashes to the left on both upper floors. To the right a projecting tall stack.
Aylestone Road front has low garden wall with ashlar coping and a pair of square gatepiers to the right.
Interior retains original stairs, doors, some fireplaces and Minton tile floors in the halls.
Listing NGR: SK5867603273
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 432529
- 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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