1, 3 and 5 Museum Square including 47 New Walk and 38 Princes Road. is a Grade II listed building in the Leicester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1975. Terrace. 1 related planning application.
1, 3 and 5 Museum Square including 47 New Walk and 38 Princes Road.
- WRENN ID
- slow-latch-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leicester
- Constituency
- Leicester South MP: Shockat Adam (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1975
- Type
- Terrace
- Address
- 1, 3 and 5 Museum Square including 47 New Walk and 38 Princes Road., City of Leicester, LE1 6TE
- OS grid reference
- SK 590 038
- Coordinates
- 52.6294, -1.12918
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 1, 3 and 5 Museum Square, which also includes No 47 New Walk and No 38 Princes Road, is a mid-19th century terrace built in grey gault brick with stuccoed dressings. The building features a slate hipped roof and a modillion eaves cornice. It stands three storeys tall and has eleven windows, with the centre three and the end one projecting slightly, accented by chamfered quoins. The windows are sashes without glazing bars and have stuccoed architraves. The first floor showcases triangular and segmental pediments, while the ground floor has round arch windows and doors with keyblocks. A band runs at the first floor level. The left-hand return to Princes Road has three windows, and the right-hand return to New Walk has four windows. This terrace forms part of a group with other buildings around Museum Square, including Nos 47 and 58 to 64 (even) New Walk and Nos 59 to 61 (odd) Princess Road West, as well as No 1 West Street.
Local climate
1, 3 and 5 Museum Square including 47 New Walk and 38 Princes Road. 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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