Description

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendmenton 19/11/2020

SK 5804 SE
718/3/10138

LEICESTER
KING STREET (West side)
No. 35 Former Richard Harris and Sons Factory

(Formerly listed as No 35 Richard Harris and Sons Factory)

15-FEB-00

II
Hosiery warehouse, now industrial units. c.1845, probably by William Flint of Leicester for the noted hosiery manufacturer, Richard Harris. Extended in the same style 1851 by Flint and Wickes, 1856 by Flint and Shenton, 1866 and 1867, by Shenton and Baker. All these firms were successors to William Flint's practice. Used as a hosiery warehouse by Pool, Lorrimer and Tabberer, c.1890-c.1970. Converted 1974.

Red brick, with ashlar dressings and hipped welsh slate roofs with skylights and various coped stacks. Italianate style. Plinth, rusticated quoins, string courses, moulded eaves cornice with modillions. Three storeys plus basement. Approximately square plan, 15 x 13 windows. Windows are mainly C19 plain sashes with segmental white brick heads.

Entrance front to King Street, nine windows, has to right the main doorway, remodelled 1867. Round arched doorway with rusticated surround and keystone, moulded six-panel margin stile door and plain fanlight. Above, a window with moulded surround, volutes, keystone and voussoir head. Marlborough Street front, fifteen windows, has regular fenestration. Duke Street front, 13 windows, has regular fenestration, mainly C19 glazing bar sashes, some to the ground floor partly reglazed. The fifth window is replaced by a C20 loading door. In the ninth bay, a pair of cart doors, with a segmental headed rusticated surround. The windows above this bay are tripartite. In the twelfth bay, a C20 doorway, with a half-window to left, and a blank to right.

INTERIOR: Round cast iron columns carrying wooden floors.

Listing NGR: SK5881604012

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26660345

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Recommended Books

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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)