Taxi Station is a Grade II listed building in the Leicester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1975. A C19 Taxi station.
Taxi Station
- WRENN ID
- silver-wicket-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leicester
- Constituency
- Leicester South MP: Shockat Adam (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1975
- Type
- Taxi station
- Address
- Taxi Station, Humberstone Gate, City of Leicester, LE1 1WB
- OS grid reference
- SK 591 046
- Coordinates
- 52.63677, -1.12738
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Taxi Station is a detached building dating from the mid to late 19th century, designed in the Gothic style. It is located on an island site in Humberstone Gate. The structure is built from stone rubble with ashlar dressings and features a steep-pitched slate roof with moulded coping at the gable ends, topped with stone finials.
The building has two storeys. On the ground floor, there is a central entrance with a moulded pointed arch, flanked by two-light pointed arch windows that have a continuous impost mould. Above this, a moulded string course runs along the building. The first floor contains three windows set in moulded shouldered architraves, with the central window being smaller. Above these windows, there are two small high-pitched gables with bargeboards that form pointed arches and are pierced at the apex. The eaves cornice is also moulded. Each end of the building features a window with three pointed arch lights and a circular panel above in the gable. At the rear (south), there are chimney stacks with stone caps.
Local climate
Taxi Station 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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