Coronation Buildings

Coronation Buildings, 76-88, High Street, Leicester, LE1 5YP

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1270257
Date first listed:: 12-Mar-1996
List Entry Name:: Coronation Buildings
Statutory Address:: Coronation Buildings, 76-88, High Street, Leicester, LE1 5YP

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1270257
Date first listed:: 12-Mar-1996
Date of most recent amendment:: 02-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: Coronation Buildings
Statutory Address 1:: Coronation Buildings, 76-88, High Street, Leicester, LE1 5YP

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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:: Coronation Buildings, 76-88, High Street, Leicester, LE1 5YP

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 58470 04521

Details

SK 5804 NW 7/10056

LEICESTER HIGH STREET (south side) Numbers 76-88, Coronation Buildings

GV II Formerly known as: The Singer Building, HIGH STREET. Shops, showrooms and offices. 1902-1904, with late C20 alterations. Designed by Arthur Wakerley. Steel-framed with faience and white brick tiled facades with lead roof Art Nouveau style decoration. Three storey plus attic.

EXTERIOR, has seven window front arranged 3:1:3. Seven shop fronts mostly C20 with original faience tiled pilasters between, the central shop front and upper floor entrance slightly recessed with original wooden fascia board. First floor has broad central segmental arch with elaborate foliate spandrels and original thirteen-light plate glass showroom window. Either side three smaller original three-light plate glass showroom windows with panelled pilasters between and continuous moulded cornice above. Second floor has seven faience panels, the central one blank, and each of the flanking panels decorated with a cartouche with coloured Union Jack centre, topped with a different name panel and a representative animal, linked by strapwork chains to foliate corner decorations. From left to right the names and animals which appear above these cartouches are; AUSTRALIA with a Kangaroo, EGYPT with a camel, CANADA with a mountain lion, INDIA with a tiger, BURMAH with an elephant and AFRICA with an ostrich. Above centre has three pairs of round headed windows in deep arches with strapwork balustrades and dividing coloured columns and pilasters. Either side three four-light windows with similar balustrades and dividing columns, topped by continuous chamfered eaves cornice with Art Nouveau tiling. Central section has projecting round headed attic with large fanlight, originally topped by a statue of Britannia. Below three panels, the outer ones with tiled scenes of galleons, the inner one with late C20 coloured tiles.

INTERIOR, not inspected.

This large commercial property was designed and built by Arthur Wakerley (1862-1931), a prominent local architect, developer, philanthropist and politician. Most of the building was occupied as the Midland headquarters and main showroom of the Singer Sewing Machine Co from 1904 to c 1965. It is a rare and well preserved example of an Edwardian commercial property decorated with an Art Nouveau style faience facade.

Listing NGR: SK5847004521

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Legacy System number:: 459806
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.