Former Donisthorpe and Company Limited factory range of three buildings to right of entrance fronting Bath Lane is a Grade II listed building in the Leicester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1975. Factory.
Former Donisthorpe and Company Limited factory range of three buildings to right of entrance fronting Bath Lane
- WRENN ID
- tenth-postern-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leicester
- Constituency
- Leicester West MP: Liz Kendall (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1975
- Type
- Factory
- Address
- Former Donisthorpe and Company Limited factory range of three buildings to right of entrance fronting Bath Lane, Bath Lane Mill, 104, City of Leicester, LE3 5BJ
- OS grid reference
- SK 580 046
- Coordinates
- 52.63687, -1.14402
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former Donisthorpe and Company Limited factory range consists of three buildings located to the right of the entrance, facing Bath Lane. The building immediately to the right of the entrance dates from the early 19th century and is constructed of red brick with a slate roof that has a hipped end. It is two storeys high and features three widely spaced sash windows with glazing bars set in flush casings. The ground floor has segmental brick arches above the windows, two of which are fitted with shutters. The entrance has coupled moulded doorcases with rectangular fanlights and fielded-panel doors.
The central section, likely also from the early 19th century, is another factory building made of red brick with a slate hipped roof. It is two storeys tall and has four windows. The first floor features segmental brick arches over horizontally sliding sash windows with glazing bars, while the ground floor has iron-frame windows with brick segmental arches.
The building at the far right, which may date from the 18th century or early 19th century, is a factory building made of red brick with a slate roof that has one end gabled and the other hipped. It is three storeys high and has a symmetrical front with seven windows, all featuring segmental brick arches. The fixed-light wood windows have glazing bars, and the ground floor includes shutters and one blind window. There is a doorway on the right with a brick segmental arch and a rectangular fanlight with glazing bars, along with a blocked elliptical-arch doorway at the centre.
Local climate
Former Donisthorpe and Company Limited factory range of three buildings to right of entrance fronting Bath Lane 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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