Southfields Branch Library and Attached Former Child Welfare Clinic is a Grade II listed building in the Leicester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1993. Library, clinic. 2 related planning applications.
Southfields Branch Library and Attached Former Child Welfare Clinic
- WRENN ID
- tenth-passage-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leicester
- Constituency
- Leicester South MP: Shockat Adam (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1993
- Type
- Library, clinic
- Address
- Southfields Branch Library and Attached Former Child Welfare Clinic, Southfields Drive, City of Leicester, LE2 6QS
- OS grid reference
- SK 583 002
- Coordinates
- 52.59681, -1.14034
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Southfields Branch Library and the attached former Child Welfare Clinic is a public library and clinic built in 1939, designed by Symington, Prince & Pike. The structure is made of reinforced concrete with red brick cladding and features a brick plinth.
In a Moderne style, the building is single storey with a complex trilobe plan, highlighted by a tall circular clerestorey central hall. The entrance, located on Attlee Way, features a central entrance with stepped sides and a concrete canopy, flanked by large casement windows. The curved corners to the west and northeast include central doors and strips of casement windows with banded brickwork below. The clinic entrance on the southeast has a recessed doorway with curved sides, and above it is a recessed upper floor with double doors.
Inside, the library retains some original features such as built-in bookshelves, doors, stepped coving, banded columns, and glazed roofs.
Local climate
Southfields Branch Library and Attached Former Child Welfare Clinic receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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