Description

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 17/07/2018

SK 60 NW
718/15/10053

LEICESTER
GIPSY LANE (South side)
No. 431, The Old Lodge, Lodge to former Towers Hospital

(Formerly listed as Lodge at Towers Hospital Gate 2, Block 49, GIPSY LANE)

II
Lodge to former psychiatric hospital. 1867-1869, by E.L Stephens, Borough Surveyor. Gothic Revival style, similar to the hospital. Red brick, with blue brick and ashlar dressings, and slate roofs with a central corbelled ridge stack. Dentillated eaves.

Single storey, cruciform plan, with half-hipped roofs on the main axis, and gabled cross wing. Entrance front has a projecting gable with tracery and bargeboard. Canted brick and ashlar bay window, flanked to right by a painted ashlar doorcase under a relieving arch. Half-glazed door. To left, a two-light mullioned window. To left again, a lower service bay with a similar window and hipped roof. Right return has half-hipped bay with a renewed window under a relieving arch.

Listing NGR: SK6165206268

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26657330

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Recommended Books

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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)