Cattle Market Refreshment Rooms
40, Almond Lane, Leicester, LE2 7LH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1361409
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Cattle Market Refreshment Rooms
- Statutory Address:
- 40, Almond Lane, Leicester, LE2 7LH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1361409
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Cattle Market Refreshment Rooms
- Statutory Address 1:
- 40, Almond Lane, Leicester, LE2 7LH
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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:
- 40, Almond Lane, Leicester, LE2 7LH
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 58784 02951
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 12/11/2020
SK 50 SE
17/208
ALMOND ROAD
No 40, Cattle Market Refreshment Rooms
(Formerly listed as Cattle Market Refreshment Rooms, AYLESTONE ROAD)
II
Circa 1871-72. Architect John Breedon Everard. Single-storey red brick building approximately cruciform on plan. Slate hipped roof with very wide eaves supported on ornate cast-iron brackets, and decorative iron cresting to eaves. Round-arch windows and depressed pointed arch doorways with moulded brick and keystones in arches and continuous stone string course at impost level. Tall clock tower at centre, gabled with shaped bargeboards, arched drip-mould over clock face with carved foliage at impost with head of cattle projecting at each corner. Surmounted by louvred bell-turret with square spire with elaborate wind-vane. Including Restaurant building to west, similar but square on plan and without clock tower.
Listing NGR: SK5878402951
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 188568
- 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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