Leicester Frith Hospital Mansion, Block 01
LEICESTER FRITH HOSPITAL MANSION, BLOCK 01, GROBY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376810
- Date first listed:
- 14-Nov-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Leicester Frith Hospital Mansion, Block 01
- Statutory Address:
- LEICESTER FRITH HOSPITAL MANSION, BLOCK 01, GROBY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376810
- Date first listed:
- 14-Nov-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Leicester Frith Hospital Mansion, Block 01
- Statutory Address 1:
- LEICESTER FRITH HOSPITAL MANSION, BLOCK 01, GROBY ROAD
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:
- LEICESTER FRITH HOSPITAL MANSION, BLOCK 01, GROBY ROAD
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:
- SK5566006788
Details
SK 50 NW
718/13/10054
LEICESTER
GROBY ROAD
(North side)
Leicester Frith Hospital
Mansion, Block 01
II
Small country house, now hospital offices. Dated 1870. Jocabean Revival style. Random granite rubble, with ashlar dressings and Swithland slate roofs. Ridge stacks with multiple octagonal coped flues. Plinth, quoins, first floor sill band. 2 storeys plus attics; 7 window range. L-plan.
Entrance front has a projecting central bay with shaped coped gable and finial. Round-arched ashlar doorcase with mask keystone, flanked by Renaissance Revival pilasters, under a cornice. Above, a 4-light cross mullioned window. Above again, a single window with cornice and crest, set in a shaped coped gable. Side bays have asymmetrical fenestration with several mullioned windows under a parapet. Projecting end bays have each a canted bay window, 2 storeys, with balustrade. Above, a single window set in a coped gable. Right return has a square tower porch with balustrade, and a projecting gabled bay to its right. Interior: entrance hall has moulded cornices and panelled cross beams. Open-well wooden staircase with square-turned balustrade, lit by a canted bay window with shafts and enriched cornice. Half-landing has foliage cornice and ceiling boss. First floor landing has a light well with wooden balustrade, under a coved ceiling with rectangular clerestorey. First floor front room has coved strapwork ceiling and 2 C19 hanging lamps.
Listing NGR: SK5566006788
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 468939
- 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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