Former Richard Harris and Sons Factory

35, King Street, Leicester, LE1 6RN

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1380130
Date first listed:
15-Feb-2000
List Entry Name:
Former Richard Harris and Sons Factory
Statutory Address:
35, King Street, Leicester, LE1 6RN
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1380130
Date first listed:
15-Feb-2000
List Entry Name:
Former Richard Harris and Sons Factory
Statutory Address 1:
35, King Street, Leicester, LE1 6RN

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

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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.

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The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

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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:
35, King Street, Leicester, LE1 6RN

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 58816 04012

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendmenton 19/11/2020

SK 5804 SE
718/3/10138

LEICESTER
KING STREET (West side)
No. 35 Former Richard Harris and Sons Factory

(Formerly listed as No 35 Richard Harris and Sons Factory)

15-FEB-00

II
Hosiery warehouse, now industrial units. c.1845, probably by William Flint of Leicester for the noted hosiery manufacturer, Richard Harris. Extended in the same style 1851 by Flint and Wickes, 1856 by Flint and Shenton, 1866 and 1867, by Shenton and Baker. All these firms were successors to William Flint's practice. Used as a hosiery warehouse by Pool, Lorrimer and Tabberer, c.1890-c.1970. Converted 1974.

Red brick, with ashlar dressings and hipped welsh slate roofs with skylights and various coped stacks. Italianate style. Plinth, rusticated quoins, string courses, moulded eaves cornice with modillions. Three storeys plus basement. Approximately square plan, 15 x 13 windows. Windows are mainly C19 plain sashes with segmental white brick heads.

Entrance front to King Street, nine windows, has to right the main doorway, remodelled 1867. Round arched doorway with rusticated surround and keystone, moulded six-panel margin stile door and plain fanlight. Above, a window with moulded surround, volutes, keystone and voussoir head. Marlborough Street front, fifteen windows, has regular fenestration. Duke Street front, 13 windows, has regular fenestration, mainly C19 glazing bar sashes, some to the ground floor partly reglazed. The fifth window is replaced by a C20 loading door. In the ninth bay, a pair of cart doors, with a segmental headed rusticated surround. The windows above this bay are tripartite. In the twelfth bay, a C20 doorway, with a half-window to left, and a blank to right.

INTERIOR: Round cast iron columns carrying wooden floors.


Listing NGR: SK5881604012

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Legacy System:
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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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