Westcotes Maternity Hospital Including the Lodge and Stables to the South East

WESTCOTES MATERNITY HOSPITAL INCLUDING THE LODGE AND STABLES TO THE SOUTH EAST, WESTCOTES DRIVE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1361053
Date first listed:
14-Mar-1975
List Entry Name:
Westcotes Maternity Hospital Including the Lodge and Stables to the South East
Statutory Address:
WESTCOTES MATERNITY HOSPITAL INCLUDING THE LODGE AND STABLES TO THE SOUTH EAST, WESTCOTES DRIVE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1361053
Date first listed:
14-Mar-1975
List Entry Name:
Westcotes Maternity Hospital Including the Lodge and Stables to the South East
Statutory Address 1:
WESTCOTES MATERNITY HOSPITAL INCLUDING THE LODGE AND STABLES TO THE SOUTH EAST, WESTCOTES DRIVE

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
WESTCOTES MATERNITY HOSPITAL INCLUDING THE LODGE AND STABLES TO THE SOUTH EAST, 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 57290 03857

Details

WESTCOTES DRIVE 1. 5304 Westcotes Maternity Hospital including the Lodge and Stables to the south SK 50 SE 17/352 east II 2. Circa 1888. Architect Teulon. Purple brick with blue brick bands and stone dressings. Slate roofs. Gothic style. Irregular plan and elevations. Two storeys and attic. Main east elevation overlooking terrace has large right-hand two-storeyed splayed bay with stone mullion/transom windows with four-centred arch lights and pyramidal roof. Central gothic window with tracery in gable with ball-finial and corbelled chimney to side, below is three-light four-centred arch window and four-centred arch door, to left gable with chimney stack rising through it. Long irregular north elevation. On the west a three-storey kitchen wing with bellcote with bell-shaped dome and ornate wind-vane. The Lodge, contemporary, by Teulon, built of purple brick with b1ue brick bands. Stone mullion windows. Slate roof with gable ends. Two storeys. L-shaped plan. Stone single-storey splayed bay to road. The stables, contemporary, purple brick with blue brick bands. Slate roof with gabled ends. One storey and attic. To rf.ght four-centred stone arch carriage-entrance with stone left doorway above in gable with ornate weathervane over. To left of carriage-entrance the ground floor is taken up by modern garage doors.

Listing NGR: SK5729003857

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
188838
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.

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