17 AND 19, DORE ROAD

Numbers 17 and 19 on Dore Road are a pair of semi-detached council houses built around 1922, designed by architect Arthur Wakerley. They are constructed from pale red Sileby common brick with darker brick dressings and feature Bangor slate roofs that include integral roof lights and two short brick ridge stacks. The exterior showcases a gabled street front with four ground floor windows arranged in a 1:2:1 pattern, where the central section projects slightly. The two central windows are tripartite sashes, flanked by single sashes, and above them are two additional sashes. All windows have glazing bars in the upper sash and composite lintels. There are low single-storey returns with a catslide roof, featuring single off-centre recessed doorways with inset roof lights.

This pair of workers' houses is one of only four pairs designed by Wakerley that remain unaltered in Leicester. The other pairs are located at 18 and 20 Linton Street, 19 and 21 Great Arler Road, and 59 and 61 Dunster Street. Wakerley, who lived from 1862 to 1931, designed these homes as part of a response to the demand for affordable and well-designed housing for workers following the Great War, known as the Home for Heroes initiative. He was a significant local figure, serving as an architect, developer, philanthropist, and Chair of Leicester's first Housing and Town Planning Committee in the 1920s.