8, Bowling Green Street is a Grade II listed building in the Leicester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1975. House. 4 related planning applications.
8, Bowling Green Street
- WRENN ID
- little-pillar-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leicester
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1975
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 8 Bowling Green Street is a building dated 1865, designed in the Gothic style. It is constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings and features a steep-pitched slate roof with crenellated chimney stacks at both ends. The building is two storeys high.
The central section has a carved stone foliage eaves cornice and three windows. The first floor contains two-light Gothic pointed arch windows with plate tracery and shafts with carved capitals, along with a deep band at the first floor level. The ground floor has large four-light stone mullion and transom windows with cusped ogee-head lights, separated by a plain brick buttress.
To the left, there is a slight projection that is gabled and three storeys tall, featuring one window with two-light Gothic windows and cusped heads on the ground and second floors, as well as a carved tympanum on the first floor. To the right, there is another slight projection made of ashlar with a pyramidal roof. This section has a large high-pointed-arch entrance on the ground floor, adorned with carved mouldings and a double order of shafts, along with original doors that have richly carved panels of foliage. The first floor features a finely carved stone splayed bay window on moulded and carved corbels, with shouldered headed lights and additional carving between.
Above the bay window is a blind arch that contains the date and is decorated with crockets to the drip mould with a finial, flanked by cusped circular recesses. The area railings are missing, except for a heavy ornate cast-iron gate and piers located to the right of the entrance.
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- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
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- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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