59 and 61, Dunster Street

This is a pair of semi-detached council houses built around 1922 and designed by Arthur Wakerley. The houses are constructed of pale red Sileby common brick with darker brick dressings. They have Bangor slate roofs with integrated roof lights, and two short brick ridge stacks. Features include a brick cill band, lintel bands, and quoins.

The two-story houses have a gabled street frontage with four ground-floor windows, arranged in a 1:2:1 layout, with the central section projecting slightly. Two central tripartite sash windows are flanked by single sashes, and the upper floor mirrors the lower, with two sashes. All windows have glazing bars to the upper sash and composite lintels. Low, single-story returns extend to the sides, finished with catslide roofs and single, recessed doorways with inset roof lights. The interior was not inspected.

These houses are part of a group of just four pairs designed by Arthur Wakerley that survive unaltered in Leicester. Arthur Wakerley (1862-1931) designed the houses in 1922 as an economical and well designed solution to the need for housing for workers following the Great War. He was a local politician, architect, developer, philanthropist and served as Chair of Leicester's first Housing and Town Planning Committee in the 1920s.