Luke Turner and Company former Elastic Webbing Factory
Luke Turner and Company former Elastic Webbing Factory, Henshaw Street, Leicester
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1361040
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jun-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Luke Turner and Company former Elastic Webbing Factory
- Statutory Address:
- Luke Turner and Company former Elastic Webbing Factory, Henshaw Street, Leicester
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1361040
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jun-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Luke Turner and Company former Elastic Webbing Factory
- Statutory Address 1:
- Luke Turner and Company former Elastic Webbing Factory, Henshaw Street, Leicester
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:
- Luke Turner and Company former Elastic Webbing Factory, Henshaw Street, Leicester
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 58541 03806
Details
SK 5803-5903
9/10016
LEICESTER
HENSHAW STREET
Luke Turner and Company, former elastic webbing factory
II
Elastic webbing factory.1893. Designed by Stott and Sons of Oldham & Manchester.
Iron framed with brick cladding and hipped slate roofs. Eight bays to east four storey, seven bays to west two storey.
Henshaw Street front has on the ground floor fifteen bays,each with two twelve-pane wooden glazing bar windows per bay, with lower brick panels and between each bay an iron stantion clad with an iron plate.The horizontal girders are clad with wooden plates, and the junctions are clad with iron capital plates. The three and a half bays to the right are masked by a later addition. Above fifteen similar bays. Above again, to the right two storeys of eight bays with similar articulation. To the right a set back brick stair tower with a single window to each floor. The yard front is similar with two twenty-two-pane wooden glazing bar windows per bay. The right bay of the four storey section has pairs of taking-in doors on each floor and beyond a small, projecting brick stair tower.
Interior: each floor has two rows of iron columns running down the centre. The top floor has exposed iron trusses supporting the hipped cross roofs.
This building is listed as an extremely early example of an exposed iron frame building.
Listing NGR: SK5854103806
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 188870
- 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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