Silver Arcade (section from Sillver Street to Cank Street) is a Grade II listed building in the Leicester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1975. Arcade. 2 related planning applications.
Silver Arcade (section from Sillver Street to Cank Street)
- WRENN ID
- moated-landing-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leicester
- Constituency
- Leicester South MP: Shockat Adam (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1975
- Type
- Arcade
- Address
- Silver Arcade (section from Sillver Street to Cank Street), City of Leicester, LE1 5FA
- OS grid reference
- SK 586 045
- Coordinates
- 52.63556, -1.13411
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Silver Arcade, built in 1891, is an arcade of shops located between Silver Street and Cank Street. The interior features three tiers with iron balcony railings. The first tier has stanchions supported on console brackets, plain shop windows, and a glass roof light over a central well.
The elevation facing Silver Street is constructed of ashlar and consists of three storeys and an attic. It has a large round-arch entrance flanked by two-storey bays with pilasters, and an oriel window above. The attic features windows with broken segmental pediments, from which small obelisks rise. The ground floor has two plain modern shops on either side of the entrance.
The Cank Street elevation is also made of ashlar but is simpler in design, featuring an oriel window above a central round-arch entrance. Above this is a wooden attic storey topped with a square cupola. The building has a slate roof.
Local climate
Silver Arcade (section from Sillver Street to Cank Street) receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% 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 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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