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
The Former Collegiate School Leicester was built between 1835 and 1836 by architect J.G. Weightman. It is constructed of white brick with stone dressings and features a central hall flanked by classrooms. The hall's facade is designed in the Perpendicular style, highlighted by a five-light four-centred arch window, with niches on either side and a circular clerestory window above. The gable end is adorned with multifoil cusps, moulded coping, and pinnacles.
Single-storey classrooms are located on each side of the hall, connected by an interior corridor and featuring a castellated and gabled exterior with Tudor-Gothic windows. The entire structure is topped with pinnacles, although the tops of these are missing. An additional storey was added to the east classroom in the late 19th century.
Ornate doorways provide entrances at both the north and south ends of the building, with two symmetrically placed bay windows at each end of the main facade. Most windows, except those at the east and west ends of the great hall, are in the Tudor-Gothic style, rectangular with stone mullions and dripmoulds.
A modern low single-storey flat-roof laboratory has been attached to the front of the building. Inside, the great hall features a roof supported by hammer-beams and curved braces resting on stone corbels, with tie-beams supported by king-posts that terminate in decorative bosses.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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