Sykefield and 138, Westcotes Drive
Sykefield and 138, Westcotes Drive
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1361038
- Date first listed:
- 16-Oct-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Sykefield and 138, Westcotes Drive
- Statutory Address:
- Sykefield and 138, Westcotes Drive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1361038
- Date first listed:
- 16-Oct-1991
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 25-Feb-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Sykefield and 138, Westcotes Drive
- Statutory Address 1:
- Sykefield and 138, Westcotes Drive
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:
- Sykefield and 138, 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 57103 03867
Details
SK 50 SE
17/437
LEICESTER
WESTCOTES DRIVE
Sykefield and No 138
(Formerly listed as 136, Sykefield)
GV
II
Large house with attached service wing and lodge. c1880. Designed by Ewan Christian. Red brick with ashlar dressings and Cumberland slate hipped roof with five tall chimney stacks. Two storeys plus attics. Chamfered plinth and ground floor hood band and first floor cill band. Metal framed casement windows. Entrance front has projecting porch with ashlar archway with triple overlight and inner plank door, plus various two light mullion windows. Above three hipped dormers with cross casements. To the left a projecting wing and beyond a projecting single storey service entrance wing. Main, garden front, five windows, with projecting central, three storey, canted bay window with central three-light and flanking two- light cross mullion windows to each floor. To the left a garden door with double overlight and beyond a four-light cross mullion window and, and above a two-light and a three-light mullion window. To the right a two-light and a three-light cross mullion window with above two, two-light mullion windows. Above either side of central bay are two hipped dormers with two-light casements. Attached to the right a single storey service wing linked to the slightly higher stable wing, now altered.
A linking wall and gates joins the lodge to the north west. This lodge has a similar hipped roof and a central stack. Single storey, L-plan. Entrance front has a projecting square bay with a three-light mullion casement and hipped roof. Above a single hipped dormer window with two-light casement. To the left a wall enclosing a small yard, with plank gate.
INTERIOR: retains many of its original features including doors, door frames and internal shutters. The main staircase has square newels and turned balusters, the central well is now filled by a C20 lift. The rear stair with stick balusters also survives. Many of the rooms retain their imitation C18 wooden fireplaces.
Listing NGR: SK5710303867
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 188860
- 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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