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List entry Summary

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Name: RICHARD HARRIS AND SONS FACTORY

List entry Number: 1380130

Location

RICHARD HARRIS AND SONS FACTORY, 35, KING STREET

The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County	District	District Type	Parish
	City of Leicester	Unitary Authority

National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.

Grade: II

Date first listed: 15-Feb-2000

Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.

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Legacy System: LBS

UID: 479626

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List entry Description

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History

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Details

LEICESTER

SK 5804 SE KING STREET 718/3/10138 (West side) 15-FEB-00 35 Richard Harris and Sons Factory

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 & Wickes, 1856 by Flint & Shenton, 1866 and 1867, by Shenton & Baker. All these firms were successors to William Flint's practice. Used as a hosiery warehouse by Pool, Lorrimer & 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. 3 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, 9 windows, has to right the main doorway, remodelled 1867. Round arched doorway with rusticated surround and keystone, moulded 6-panel margin stile door and plain fanlight. Above, a window with moulded surround, volutes, keystone and voussoir head. Marlborough Street front, 15 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

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National Grid Reference: SK 58816 04012

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