3, The Drive

COUNTESTHORPE

SP59 NE THE DRIVE (West Side)

1/23 No. 3

21.9.81

GV II

House, formerly one of the cottage homes built by the Leicester Poor Law Union in 1884. Architect I Baradale. Brick with Welsh slate roof, cruciform plan. 4 irregular bays on the main elevation with the kitchen wing extending out at the rear and one gabled bay left of the centre projecting forward. Irregular fenestration mixing 1, 2 and 3 light casement windows with some mullions and transoms. Other are vertical sashes. All have flat arched heads. Top half of projecting bay is painted plaster and wood. To the left of this is a decorative chimney stack with brick stack surmounted by pitched slate roof with gables. This is supported on a modillion course. Rising from this base are two brick flues diagonally set. The right hand gable, facing onto the drive has two deeply recessed windows each under gauged brick arches with voussoirs and brick hood moulds above. To the right of the projecting bay is a brick and Welsh slate porch, in a "muscular" style.

Listing NGR: SP5700295420