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
Constituency
Leicester South MP: Shockat Adam (Ind)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 March 1975
Type
House
Address
8, Bowling Green Street, City of Leicester, LE1 6AT
OS grid reference
SK 588 042
Coordinates
52.63276, -1.13235
Source
Historic England listing

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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.

Local climate

8, Bowling Green Street 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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