GATE PIERS AND CAST IRON GATE TO FORMER MIDLAND RAILWAY STATION

GATE PIERS AND CAST IRON GATE TO FORMER MIDLAND RAILWAY STATION, STATION STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1361036
Date first listed:: 06-May-1986
List Entry Name:: GATE PIERS AND CAST IRON GATE TO FORMER MIDLAND RAILWAY STATION
Statutory Address:: GATE PIERS AND CAST IRON GATE TO FORMER MIDLAND RAILWAY STATION, STATION STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1361036
Date first listed:: 06-May-1986
List Entry Name:: GATE PIERS AND CAST IRON GATE TO FORMER MIDLAND RAILWAY STATION
Statutory Address 1:: GATE PIERS AND CAST IRON GATE TO FORMER MIDLAND RAILWAY STATION, STATION STREET

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:: GATE PIERS AND CAST IRON GATE TO FORMER MIDLAND RAILWAY STATION, STATION 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 59347 04164

Details

STATION STREET 1. 5304 Gate piers and cast iron SK 5904 8/340 gate to former Midland Railway Station. II 2.Gatepiers and gate.1839. Only surviving features of the former Midland Railway Station by William Parsons in Greek Revival style. Station demolished in 1890 and rebuilt. Two stone piers and one cast iron gate. Each pier, of five slightly tapering ashlar blocks on a projecting single block base course, has a frieze and moulded classical cornice with a weathered capping block over. The sides of each pier are cut with a central vertical band which stops against a vertical console bracket below the frieze. A single leaf C.I. gate, with fleur de lys finials to the vertical bars, is hinged onto the west side of the west pier.

Listing NGR: SK5934704164

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Legacy System number:: 188847
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.