Area Railings to No 81
AREA RAILINGS TO NO 81, 69-81, KING STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1300242
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jan-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Area Railings to No 81
- Statutory Address:
- AREA RAILINGS TO NO 81, 69-81, KING STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1300242
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jan-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Area Railings to No 81
- Statutory Address 1:
- AREA RAILINGS TO NO 81, 69-81, KING STREET
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:
- AREA RAILINGS TO NO 81, 69-81, KING STREET
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 58892 03841
Details
KING STREET 1. 5304 (West Side) 5.1.50 Nos 69 to 81 (odd) Area Railings to No 81 SK 5803 9/57 II 2. Dated 1836. Early C19 terrace range in stucco, with plinth and bands. Two-storey houses in pairs, with pilasters with anthemion capitals dividing off all windows and doors. Ten window range, with dog-eared stucco architraves. All sashes with glazing bars. Doors paired and recessed, each pair with a plain segmental headed entry up three stone steps. Five-panel doors with rectangular traceried fanlights. Plain frieze and cornice breaking forward between doorways. No 81 is the corner house of block, faces south, with similar treatment, and division by pilasters but the centre has a rounded two-storey bow containing door and window, and a plaque above inscribed "Crescent Cottages 1836" inserted in frieze below the cornice. Recessed door, which has a shouldered stucco architrave, as also the two ground floor windows. A small rectangular blind panel flanks door and central upper window. One later dormer with barge boards. Slate roof. Including area railings to No 81 with spear-headed shafts and linked circles in frieze below, the two small gates are treated in same way.
Listing NGR: SK5889203841
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 188686
- 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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