Former Richard Harris and Sons Factory

A hosiery warehouse, now used as industrial units, was built around 1845, likely by William Flint of Leicester for the hosiery manufacturer Richard Harris. Extensions followed in 1851, 1856, 1866, and 1867, carried out by firms that were successors to William Flint’s architectural practice: Flint and Wickes, Flint and Shenton, and Shenton and Baker. The building was later used as a hosiery warehouse by Pool, Lorrimer and Tabberer from around 1890 until around 1970, and was converted in 1974.

The warehouse is constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings and has hipped welsh slate roofs with skylights and various coped stacks, reflecting an Italianate style. It has a plinth, rusticated quoins, string courses, a moulded eaves cornice with modillions, and a basement. The building is roughly square, with approximately 15 windows by 13. Most windows are 19th-century plain sash windows with segmental white brick heads.

The main entrance front, facing King Street, has nine windows. The right-hand side contains a doorway, remodelled in 1867, with a round arched surround, rusticated details and keystone, a six-panel door with margin stiles and a plain fanlight. Above the doorway is a window with a moulded surround, volutes, a keystone, and a voussoir head. The front facing Marlborough Street has fifteen windows, with a regular pattern. The front facing Duke Street has 13 windows, with mainly 19th-century glazing bar sashes, some of which have been partly reglazed on the ground floor. The fifth window has been replaced by a 20th-century loading door. The ninth bay features a pair of cart doors with a segmental headed rusticated surround, with tripartite windows above. The twelfth bay contains a 20th-century doorway, with a half-window to its left and a blank space to its right.

The interior features round cast iron columns supporting wooden floors.