NUMBERS 65-75

This is a terrace of houses, now converted into flats, built around 1916-18. The terrace was commissioned by the Wycliffe Society for Helping the Blind, and likely designed by Arthur Wakerley. The building is constructed of red brick with a pantile roof and brick ridge and end stacks. There are five projecting two-story porches. The first floor has a ten-window range of 20th-century replacement windows. Each porch features an additional three-light window supported by corbels, with a door set in a painted stone surround below. Service doors are located within single-story lean-to additions at intervals, and there are additional windows on the sides of the porches. The rear of the building incorporates various doors, windows, and recent sets of steps leading to entrance balconies. The terrace forms part of a significant group of buildings constructed for the blind by the Society, following Hunter Lodge, Wycliffe Hall (now the Sam Cooper Day Centre), and preceding workshops and a lodge built by the Leicestershire and Rutland Institution for the Blind. This development reflected the principles detailed in Edwin Crew’s 1912 book, ‘City of the Blind at Leicester’.