Former Richard Roberts Factory

Former Richard Roberts Factory, 5, The Chimney, Junior Street, Leicester, LE1 4QD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1391114
Date first listed:: 28-Jul-2004
List Entry Name:: Former Richard Roberts Factory
Statutory Address:: Former Richard Roberts Factory, 5, The Chimney, Junior Street, Leicester, LE1 4QD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1391114
Date first listed:: 28-Jul-2004
List Entry Name:: Former Richard Roberts Factory
Statutory Address 1:: Former Richard Roberts Factory, 5, The Chimney, Junior Street, Leicester, LE1 4QD

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:: Former Richard Roberts Factory, 5, The Chimney, Junior Street, Leicester, LE1 4QD

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 58462 04981

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 19/07/2018

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LEICESTER JUNIOR STREET (North side) No 5, The Chimney Former Richard Roberts Factory

(Formerly listed as Richard Roberts Factory, JUNIOR STREET) 28-JUL-04

II Also Known As: Richard Roberts Factory, BURGESS STREET

Former hosiery factory. 1915. by G.Lawton Brown and Percy C. Jones for Messers Toone and Kelsey, Hosiery Manufacturers. Various shades of brick with red brick and concrete dressings. Flat roof behind parapet. Prominent brick stack to east end. English Baroque style.

Rectangular plan with irregular end to east. Three storeys and basement. Fifteen by seven bays of mostly metal-framed windows with glazing bars. Tall brick pilasters rising from a rusticated concrete base support a moulded concrete frieze and modillion cornice. Corner pavilions have concrete pilasters rising from ground floor bases of channelled rustication. Entrances in ornamental doorcases or arches at the ends of the longer fronts. At the east end are the attached lower ancillary buildings for power, etc., and towering above the factory at this point is the fine chimney which has tapering sides and an ornamental concrete top.

INTERIOR. The open-plan interior survives with a steel frame and hardwood floors. There is some coloured tiling to basement areas and staircases. Steel-truss roof.

This is a particularly imposing and carefully detailed hosiery factory of the early C20 period which was a very significant one for the East Midlands hosiery industry.

SK5846204978

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Legacy System number:: 492182
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.