NUMBERS 65-75

NUMBERS 65-75, 65-75, GEDDING ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389424
Date first listed:: 10-Sep-2001
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 65-75
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 65-75, 65-75, GEDDING ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389424
Date first listed:: 10-Sep-2001
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 65-75
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBERS 65-75, 65-75, GEDDING ROAD

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 65-75, 65-75, GEDDING 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 61076 04054

Details

718/0/10166 GEDDING ROAD 10-SEP-01 65-75

GV II

Terrace of houses, now flats. c1916-18, converted to flats 1977. For the Wycliffe Society for Helping the Blind and probably by Arthur Wakerley. Red brick with pantile roof and brick ridge and end stacks. 5 projecting 2-storey porches. 10-window range at 1st floor of C20 replacement windows. An additional 3-light window in each porch supported on corbels. Door below in painted stone surround. Service doors in adjoining single-storey lean-tos at intervals. Further windows in sides of porches. To rear are various doors and windows and recent sets of steps to entrance balconies. Forms part of a very significant group of buildings built for the blind by the Society beginning with Hunter Lodge (qv), then Wycliffe Hall (now the Sam Cooper Day Centre) (qv), then this terrace, 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

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Legacy System number:: 488083
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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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.