Wimbledon House
Wimbledon House, 21, Wimbledon Street, Leicester, LE1 1SU
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391296
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jul-2004
- List Entry Name:
- Wimbledon House
- Statutory Address:
- Wimbledon House, 21, Wimbledon Street, Leicester, LE1 1SU
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391296
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jul-2004
- List Entry Name:
- Wimbledon House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Wimbledon House, 21, Wimbledon Street, Leicester, LE1 1SU
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:
- Wimbledon House, 21, Wimbledon Street, Leicester, LE1 1SU
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 59254 04560
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 9 October 2023 to amend details in the description and to reformat the text to current standards
718/0/10220
LEICESTER
WIMBLEDON STREET (East side)
No 21, Wimbledon House
(Formerly listed as Wimbledon House, WIMBLEDON STREET)
II
Also known as: Wimbledon House, SOUTHAMPTON STREET
Clothiers warehouse. c. 1870. Designed by William Jackson of Leicester for Messers Hart & Levy, tailors and wholesale clothiers. Orange brick with ashlar dressings. Three storey with deep basement. Corner site with elevations to Wimbledon and Southampton Streets and a curved linking entrance on the corner.
Corner entrance reached up two steps, double panel doors with blocked fanlight in round headed opening. Stone surround has panelled sides with Greek Key band, moulded impost band and arch, spandrels decorated with carved foliate panels. Above another band and another carved panel with wreathed decoration. Above a tripartite sash window in moulded ashlar surround with elaborate carved cresting. The top floor has a small sash in ashlar surround.
The main street elevations are similar,that to Wimbledon Street has six windows and that to Southampton Street seven windows. Both facades have deep ashlar plinth and deeply sunk basement windows with metal frames and iron bars. Ground floor has sash windows in moulded ashlar surrounds, cornices and elaborate carved cresting, all with linking ashlar cill band. First floor has similar, though slightly smaller sash windows without the carved cresting, and above much smaller sash windows. The whole building is topped with dentillated ashlar eaves cornice and an ashlar balustraded parapet.
The Wimbledon Street facade has a stone entrance archway beyond, which gave cart access to the rear yard. This prominent gateway has a moulded ashlar arch with curved console keystone and carved patera in the spandrels. The gate is topped with carved entablature with foliate frieze and plain parapet with tiny central section of cresting. The painted wooden double gates have 'linen fold' lower panels [one replaced by a C20 door] and ornate iron grilles in the upper panels.
This is an architecturally impressive and extremely well preserved example of a late Victorian clothiers and tailors warehouse.
SK5925404561
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 492326
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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