Leicester Frith Hospital Mansion, Block 01 is a Grade II listed building in the Leicester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 November 1997. Hospital office. 1 related planning application.
Leicester Frith Hospital Mansion, Block 01
- WRENN ID
- high-threshold-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leicester
- Constituency
- Leicester West MP: Liz Kendall (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 November 1997
- Type
- Hospital office
- Address
- Leicester Frith Hospital Mansion, Block 01, Groby Road, City of Leicester
- OS grid reference
- SK 556 067
- Coordinates
- 52.65598, -1.17859
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Leicester Frith Hospital Mansion, Block 01 is a small country house, now serving as hospital offices, built in 1870 in the Jacobean Revival style. The building features random granite rubble with ashlar dressings and roofs made of Swithland slate. It has ridge stacks with multiple octagonal coped flues, a plinth, quoins, and a first-floor sill band. The structure is two storeys high with attics and has a seven-window range in an L-plan layout.
The entrance front includes a projecting central bay topped with a shaped coped gable and finial. It has a round-arched ashlar doorcase with a mask keystone, flanked by Renaissance Revival pilasters and topped with a cornice. Above this doorcase is a four-light cross mullioned window, and above that, a single window with a cornice and crest, set in a shaped coped gable. The side bays display asymmetrical fenestration with several mullioned windows beneath a parapet. The projecting end bays each feature a two-storey canted bay window with a balustrade, and above these are single windows set in coped gables.
The right return of the building has a square tower porch with a balustrade and a projecting gabled bay to its right. Inside, the entrance hall showcases moulded cornices and panelled cross beams. There is an open-well wooden staircase with a square-turned balustrade, illuminated by a canted bay window with shafts and an enriched cornice. The half-landing features a foliage cornice and a ceiling boss. The first-floor landing has a light well with a wooden balustrade beneath a coved ceiling with a rectangular clerestorey. The front room on the first floor boasts a coved strapwork ceiling and two 19th-century hanging lamps.
Local climate
Leicester Frith Hospital Mansion, Block 01 sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% 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 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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