Description

The following building shall be added to the list;

LEICESTER BELGRAVE GATE
SK 5804 NE
(east side)
1/10041 Kingstone Store
II
Store. 1937. By Raymond McGrath for Sir Charles Keene. Steel-framed with reinforced
concrete front and brick rear walls. Flat roof. L plan, wing to rear. 3 storeys of continuous
curtain wall glazing with pink Vitrolite glass between storeys held in place by copper strips.
Projecting canopy over ground floor. Rear rendered late C20. INTERIOR. Retains open plan
with ceilings supported on square piers and round to front. Open-well staircase from ground to
2nd floor. Original offices removed. Occasional archways to the adjoining buildings either side,
which are now part of the store but which are not of special architectural interest. This is one of
the few surviving works by McGrath and the front is only the 2nd known example of curtain
walling in the UK and the first without intervening mullions. McGrath was the joint author of
'Glass in Architecture and Decoration' published in 1937 and his house for the same client in
Gaulby, Leics., is included in the list for that parish.

Listing NGR: SK5896204992

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26542296

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)