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Latitude: 52.6354 / 52°38'7"N
Longitude: -1.1384 / 1°8'18"W
OS Eastings: 458403
OS Northings: 304533
OS Grid: SK584045
Mapcode National: GBR FFK.N4
Mapcode Global: WHDJJ.H03Y
Plus Code: 9C4WJVP6+5J
Entry Name: Former High Cross Coffee House
Listing Date: 27 September 1993
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1250176
English Heritage Legacy ID: 432440
ID on this website: 101250176
Location: Black Friars, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE1
County: City of Leicester
Electoral Ward/Division: Castle
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Leicester
Traditional County: Leicestershire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Leicestershire
Church of England Parish: Leicester St Martin
Church of England Diocese: Leicester
Tagged with: Building High cross
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 18/07/2018
SK 5804
7/10006
LEICESTER
HIGH STREET (north side)
Nos 101-105 and No 17 Highcross Street
Former High Cross Coffee House
(Formerly listed as Former High Cross Coffee House, now Liverpool Victoria Insurance and 101 Sports, HIGH STREET)
II
Former Coffee House. c1895. Designed by Edward Burgess. Red brick with painted ashlar dressings and plain tile roofs. Three brick stacks. Moulded wooden cornice. Three storey.
High Street front has central double doors in moulded ashlar surround flanked by Doric columns. Either side are two shop windows, with flanking panelled pilasters. Above a central two storey bay window with tripartite glazing bar sashes and below each window a pargeted panel. To the right two similar windows, and to the left two glazing bar sashes, then another tripartite bay and beyond a further bay with single sashes. Attached to the right a lower shop wing with a round headed doorway and an altered shop front. The canted corner has a pair of double doors flanked by Doric columns with above a two storey bay with a glazing bar sash and pargeted panels between.
Highcross Street front has three shop windows to the right with pilaster panels between, then a round headed doorway and a carriage arch with a segmental pedimented surround. Above two two storey bay windows with tripartite glazing bar sashes and below each window a pargeted panel, to the right a similar single sash bay window. To the left three glazing bar sashes to each floor.
Listing NGR: SK5840304532
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