56, High Street

56 High Street is a Grade I listed building that is now part of Leicester Hospital. This house dates back to the 16th century or earlier and features two storeys plus an attic, constructed with heavy timber framing. On the right side, there is a gabled cross wing that jetties at the first floor and has a simple character. The central feature is a two-storey projecting porch in an "Elizabethan" style, with the upper part made of closely set studding and diagonal studding in the gable head. The first floor has a jettied moulded bressummer supported by moulded storey posts. The windows include leaded lights, some of which are from the 18th century, and the roof is covered with old tiles. At the rear, there is a well-preserved two-storey timber-framed wing that is currently used as dwellings. This building is part of a group that includes Nos 54 and 56, the Hospital of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, in High Street, as well as Nos 1 and 1A Brook Street, West Gate, and St James's Chapel.