56, High Street

1. 1781 HIGH STREET (North Side) No 56 SP 2864 NW 1/288 10.1.53. I GV

2. Now a part of Leicester Hospital. C16 (or earlier), 2 storey plus attic house of heavy timber framing. To right hand side is gabled cross wing of simple character jettied at first floor. Central 2 storey 'Elizabethan" projecting porch, upper part being of close set studding and with diagonal studding to gable head. Jettied moulded bressummer at first floor supported by moulded storey posts. Leaded lights, some being of C18 origin. Old tiles. Good 2 storey timber-framed wing to the rear is in good repair and now used as dwellings.

Nos 54 and 56, and the Hospital of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, in High Street (North Side): Nos 1 and 1A Brook Street, and West Gate and St James's Chapel, all form a group.

Listing NGR: SP2805364744