Wycliffe Hall
Wycliffe Hall, Sam Cooper Day Centre, Gedding Road, Leicester, LE5 5FF
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389423
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Wycliffe Hall
- Statutory Address:
- Wycliffe Hall, Sam Cooper Day Centre, Gedding Road, Leicester, LE5 5FF
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389423
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Wycliffe Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- Wycliffe Hall, Sam Cooper Day Centre, Gedding Road, Leicester, LE5 5FF
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:
- Wycliffe Hall, Sam Cooper Day Centre, Gedding Road, Leicester, LE5 5FF
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 61055 04032
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 17/05/2018
718/0/10165
GEDDING ROAD
Sam Cooper Day Centre
Wycliffe Hall
(Formerly listed as Sam Cooper Day Centre, GEDDING ROAD)
10-SEP-01
GV
II
Hall, then hospital and home of rest, now day centre. 1906, with additions of 1930-31.
Original part by Arthur Wakerley on land given by him. For the Wycliffe Society for Helping the Blind. Red brick with slate roof. Stone coped gables.
Art and Crafts style to original part, rest Neo-Georgian. Central section with two wings with facing gables, the original part being the left wing. Ten-window range at first floor disposed 2:5:3. 6/6 sashes, with similar below except three to left wing. Central window is large and in moulded architrave with pediment. It has an iron balustrade which is the top of the entrance. This is a Doric portico in antis with plain entablature. Panelled door set within in channelled rustication. Left gable has projecting stack emerging from the first floor. On the end are wooden mullion and transom windows with a large central window emerging above the eaves in a dormer with curved leaded roof. Below this here is a plaque inscribed 'Wycliffe Hall for the Blind, opened AD1906 by Mrs. Arthur Wakerley; Edwin Crew Chairman of Committee'. To rear are further sash type windows and the former Home of Rest range with flat roof and taller central section with pedimented window.
Forms part of a very significant group of buildings built for the blind by the Society beginning with Hunter Lodge (qv), then this hall, followed by 65-71 Gedding Road (qv) and then, by the Leicestershire and Rutland Insititution for the Blind, the Workshops and Lodge (qv). This embodied the ideas of the 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: SK5884804837
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488082
- 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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