Former Collegiate School Leicester is a Grade II listed building in the Leicester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1975. A C19 School. 1 related planning application.
Former Collegiate School Leicester
- WRENN ID
- knotted-rafter-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leicester
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1975
- Type
- School
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 16/05/2018
SK 5904 8/379
COLLEGE STREET The Rowans Former Collegiate School Leicester
(Formerly listed as Collegiate School Leicester, COLLEGE STREET)
II 1835-6 by J.G. Weightman. Built of white brick with stone dressings, consisting of central hall flanked by classrooms.
Hall facade in Perpendicular style with a five-light four-centred arch window, a niche on each side, and above a circular clerestory window have multifoil cusps in gable end with moulded coping and pinnacles. Single-storey classrooms on each side of hall linked with an interior corridor and externally with castellated and gabled frontage pierced with Tudor-Gothic windows, the whole surmounted with pinnacles the tops of which are missing. The east classroom has extra storey added later C19.
Entrances on north and south ends with ornate doorways. Two symmetrically placed bay windows at each end of main facade. All windows except east and west ends of great hall are in Tudor-Gothic style, rectangular with stone mullions and dripmoulds.
Modern low single-storey flat-roof laboratory attached to front. The great hall roof with hammer-beams and curved braces resting on stone corbels, tie-beams supported by king-posts terminating in decorative bosses.
Listing NGR: SK5958004019
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