Lodge to former Towers Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the Leicester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 November 1997. Lodge. 1 related planning application.
Lodge to former Towers Hospital
- WRENN ID
- young-brass-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leicester
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 November 1997
- Type
- Lodge
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 17/07/2018
SK 60 NW 718/15/10053
LEICESTER GIPSY LANE (South side) No. 431, The Old Lodge, Lodge to former Towers Hospital
(Formerly listed as Lodge at Towers Hospital Gate 2, Block 49, GIPSY LANE)
II Lodge to former psychiatric hospital. 1867-1869, by E.L Stephens, Borough Surveyor. Gothic Revival style, similar to the hospital. Red brick, with blue brick and ashlar dressings, and slate roofs with a central corbelled ridge stack. Dentillated eaves.
Single storey, cruciform plan, with half-hipped roofs on the main axis, and gabled cross wing. Entrance front has a projecting gable with tracery and bargeboard. Canted brick and ashlar bay window, flanked to right by a painted ashlar doorcase under a relieving arch. Half-glazed door. To left, a two-light mullioned window. To left again, a lower service bay with a similar window and hipped roof. Right return has half-hipped bay with a renewed window under a relieving arch.
Listing NGR: SK6165206268
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