The Thomas Cook Building is a Grade II listed building in the Leicester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1972. Commercial building. 5 related planning applications.
The Thomas Cook Building
- WRENN ID
- roaming-oriel-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leicester
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 October 1972
- Type
- Commercial building
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 16/05/2018
SK 5804 NE 1/237
GALLOWTREE GATE (West side) No. 5, The Thomas Cook Building
(Formerly listed as The Thomas Cook Building, GALLOWTREE GATE)
31.10.72
II Dated 1894. Architects Goddard and Paget. Three storeys and attic. Ceramic front. Four bays wide. First floor with carved arches between piers with ornamental Ionic half-columns in front; balustraded balcony between. Entablature over with ornamental frieze of railway engines etc. Above this, rather similar treatment with three-light mullion and transom windows. Frieze inscribed "1841 T. Cook and Son 1894". Three-light windows to attic, single pilasters, with four small Flemish gables above. Modern shop front. This is a refacing and alteration of an earlier building. Thomas Cook died in 1892 and the facade may have been intended as a memorial to him.
Listing NGR: SK5876404591
Detailed Attributes
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