LANSDOWNE HOUSE AND ATTACHED LEICESTER UNIVERSITY SEMINAR ROOMS

LANSDOWNE HOUSE AND ATTACHED LEICESTER UNIVERSITY SEMINAR ROOMS, 113, PRINCESS ROAD EAST

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268272
Date first listed:: 03-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: LANSDOWNE HOUSE AND ATTACHED LEICESTER UNIVERSITY SEMINAR ROOMS
Statutory Address:: LANSDOWNE HOUSE AND ATTACHED LEICESTER UNIVERSITY SEMINAR ROOMS, 113, PRINCESS ROAD EAST

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268272
Date first listed:: 03-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: LANSDOWNE HOUSE AND ATTACHED LEICESTER UNIVERSITY SEMINAR ROOMS
Statutory Address 1:: LANSDOWNE HOUSE AND ATTACHED LEICESTER UNIVERSITY SEMINAR ROOMS, 113, PRINCESS ROAD EAST

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Location

Statutory Address:: LANSDOWNE HOUSE AND ATTACHED LEICESTER UNIVERSITY SEMINAR ROOMS, 113, PRINCESS ROAD EAST

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 59494 03571

Details

SK 5903 LEICESTER PRINCESS ROAD EAST

9/10064 Number 113, Lansdowne House and attached Leicester University Seminar Rooms

GV II

Detached house and former stables. 1872. By Goddard and Son, billiards room added 1905 by Goddard and Company. Red brick in English bond with dressings of blue brick, stone and timber. The house is of two and three storeys over basement; standing on the corner of Princess Road East and University Road, the house presents a substantial front to each of those roads and the garden. Steps up to pointed-arched entrance in Princess Road East, the architrave of moulded brickwork and of stone; doorcase with toplight and panelled doors, both with decorative leaded and stained glass. The principal accents on this front are a three-storey shallow gabled wing to the right of the entrance, and an external stack to the left, the stack stepped out twice in plan, and the upper part treated as separate polygonal stacks; windows chiefly flat-arched and set back under a segmental arch, with stone sills. The front to University Road has two principal gabled elements, that to the right with a two-storey bay window under a hipped roof, with a subsidiary bracketed hipped roof at the spandrel, and a flat-arched window in the attic under a segmental arch; the left-hand element has a segmental-arched entrance to the ground floor and a five-light window with stone surround and one transom, and stained glass in the top lights, to the first floor, and a flat-arched window under a pointed arch to the attic; to the left of these elements is an external stack treated as in Princess Road. The corner is turned to the garden front with a five-sided two-storey bay window under a polygonal roof; balancing this at the north end of the garden front is a two-storey bay window with five lights and one mullion, and planted arcaded timberwork with brick nogging in the spandrels; gabled attic bracketed out over this, the gable having similar timberwork. Almost all the ground floor is screened by an ornate and well-preserved conservatory, with ornate cornicing, and decorative pediments over the entrance and a recessed south-west corner. Complex roof with fish-scale tiles, ridge and side-stacks; flat-arched dormer to garden front. INTERIOR: has fine detailing including stained glass, tilework, beamed ceiling in staircase hall and moulded doors with elaborate fittings Two-storey wing links the house with the stables, L-shaped in plan with a principal front in Princess Road East. Two storeys, the composition given balance by the slightly projecting gable over a carriage entrance at the north end, and the gable end of the cross-wing to the south. Four shallow segmental-arched windows to ground floor between the gabled ends, under a continuous dripmould; the gabled elements have flat-arched windows with one transom, five lights to the south, four to the north, framed by planted and arcaded timberwork with brick nogging; decorative bargeboards forming a rounded arch to each gable; full gabled dormer towards northern end; fish-scale tiles to roof, and ridge stacks. Source: Brandwood G and Cherry M. Men of Property: The Goddards and Six Generations of Architecture (Leicester 1990), p.83.

Listing NGR: SK5949403571

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Sources

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Brandwood, G, Cherry, M, Men of Property The Goddards and Six Generations of Architecture, (1990), 83

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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.