Lodge to former Towers Hospital

The Old Lodge, 431, Gipsy Lane, Leicester, LE5 0SZ

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376812
Date first listed:: 14-Nov-1997
List Entry Name:: Lodge to former Towers Hospital
Statutory Address:: The Old Lodge, 431, Gipsy Lane, Leicester, LE5 0SZ

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376812
Date first listed:: 14-Nov-1997
List Entry Name:: Lodge to former Towers Hospital
Statutory Address 1:: The Old Lodge, 431, Gipsy Lane, Leicester, LE5 0SZ

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: The Old Lodge, 431, Gipsy Lane, Leicester, LE5 0SZ

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:: SK6165206268

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 17/07/2018

SK 60 NW 718/15/10053

LEICESTER GIPSY LANE (South side) No. 431, The Old Lodge, Lodge to former Towers Hospital

(Formerly listed as Lodge at Towers Hospital Gate 2, Block 49, GIPSY LANE)

II Lodge to former psychiatric hospital. 1867-1869, by E.L Stephens, Borough Surveyor. Gothic Revival style, similar to the hospital. Red brick, with blue brick and ashlar dressings, and slate roofs with a central corbelled ridge stack. Dentillated eaves.

Single storey, cruciform plan, with half-hipped roofs on the main axis, and gabled cross wing. Entrance front has a projecting gable with tracery and bargeboard. Canted brick and ashlar bay window, flanked to right by a painted ashlar doorcase under a relieving arch. Half-glazed door. To left, a two-light mullioned window. To left again, a lower service bay with a similar window and hipped roof. Right return has half-hipped bay with a renewed window under a relieving arch.

Listing NGR: SK6165206268

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Legacy System number:: 468941
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.