Sun Alliance Buildings
Sun Alliance Buildings, 17-21, Horsefair Street, Leicester, LE1 5PD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1361428
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Sun Alliance Buildings
- Statutory Address:
- Sun Alliance Buildings, 17-21, Horsefair Street, Leicester, LE1 5PD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1361428
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Sun Alliance Buildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- Sun Alliance Buildings, 17-21, Horsefair Street, Leicester, LE1 5PD
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:
- Sun Alliance Buildings, 17-21, Horsefair Street, Leicester, LE1 5PD
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 58780 04383
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 23/11/2020
SK 5804 SE
3/202
HORSEFAIR STREET (north side)
Nos 17 to 21 (odd) (Sun Alliance Buildings)
30.3.72
GV
II
1891 by Goddard and Paget. Modified C16 Flemish style. Red brick with much cut and moulded enrichment. Three storeys and attics. Ashlar ground floor with bracketed dentilled cornice over, large two three and five-light stone mullion/transom windows with small Ionic and Corinthian pilastered mullions, central round-arch doorway with carved spandrels and fluted Corinthian half-columns on pedestals, elliptical arch doorway with entablature on left. Above five windows, ends slightly project, moulded mullion/transom four and two-light windows with flanking brick pilasters with carved capitals, above first floor windows are small semi-circular shell niches in frieze of entablature. Above second floor windows relief decorations to deep frieze and dentilled cornice. Attic windows are in five gables with stone coping with finials, the end gables over projections have small flanking turret shafts, semi-circular shell niches over attic windows.
Nos 6-8, The Royal Hotel, Nos 17, 19 and 21 together with The Town Hall, Fountain and War Memorial in Town Hall Square and all listed buildings in Bishop Street form a group around Town Hall Square.
Listing NGR: SK5878004383
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 188670
- 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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