The Lodge at Workshops For the Blind
THE LODGE AT WORKSHOPS FOR THE BLIND, MARGARET ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389421
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-2001
- List Entry Name:
- The Lodge at Workshops For the Blind
- Statutory Address:
- THE LODGE AT WORKSHOPS FOR THE BLIND, MARGARET ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389421
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-2001
- List Entry Name:
- The Lodge at Workshops For the Blind
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE LODGE AT WORKSHOPS FOR THE BLIND, MARGARET 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:
- THE LODGE AT WORKSHOPS FOR THE BLIND, MARGARET 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:
- SK 61035 04052
Details
718/0/10163 MARGARET ROAD
10-SEP-01 The Lodge at Workshops for the Blind
GV II
Caretaker's house. 1922-3. By Searle and Riley for the Leicestershire and rutalnd Institution for the Blind. Red brick with tile roof and brick end stacks. Vernacular Revival style. L-plan. 2 storeys. Internal angle of L has canted brick porch with pentice roof. Casements above and to left and right on both floors. Stack and casements on left gable end and a 4-light casement on both floors on right gable end with side stack to right.
Stands close to the Workshops for the Blind (qv) and forms part of a very significant group of buildings built for the blind by the wycliffe Society beginning with Hunter Lodge (qv), then Wycliffe Hall (now Sam Cooper Day Centre), followed by 65-75 Gedding Road (qv) and then, by the Leicestershire and Rutland Insititution for the Blind, the Workshops and this Lodge (qv). This group embodied the ideas of the Wycliffe Society as expressed in Edwin Crew's book of 1912 'City of the Blind at Leicester'.
Seaton, D., 'Light amid the shadows', Leicester, 1994.
Listing NGR: SK6023602461
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488080
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Seaton, , Light Amid the Shadows, (1994)
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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