Walls and gatepiers to Sykefield

Sykefield, Westcotes Drive

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1263453
Date first listed:: 15-Oct-1991
List Entry Name:: Walls and gatepiers to Sykefield
Statutory Address:: Sykefield, Westcotes Drive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1263453
Date first listed:: 15-Oct-1991
List Entry Name:: Walls and gatepiers to Sykefield
Statutory Address 1:: Sykefield, Westcotes Drive

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:: Sykefield, Westcotes Drive

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 57104 03878

Details

SK 50 SE 17/438

LEICESTER WESTCOTES DRIVE Walls and gatepiers to Sykefield II Walls and gatepiers. c 1880. Designed by Ewan Christian. Red brick with ashlar dressings. A pair of off centre gatepiers, square with chamfered plinth and pyramidal ashlar caps with ball finials. To the left a low wall with three short dividing piers with pyramidal tops and beyond a pair of square gate piers with wooden gates. To the right a long wall divided by six square piers with pyramidal caps. The road slopes away and the wall rises to compensate to the right. Between the piers are brick panels with partially open panels above.

Listing NGR: SK5710403878

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Legacy System number:: 188861
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.