Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17528552

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Recommended Books

• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)