Hallgates Filter Station, Roecliffe Road, Newtown Linford (Locally Listed)

Water supply processing building. Originally commissioned for City of Leicester Waterworks, now operated by Severn Trent. Built 1920, (confirmed by plaque above entrance door). Quite severe stripped neoclassical styling, almost Art Deco in character but too early. Red brick with banded red and blue brick piers, quoins and window surrounds. Blue brick bands generally 3 courses wide and expressed. Slate pitched roof with single stubby stack on right hand gable (NW). Single storey and rectangular on plan. Tall 12 paned fixed windows with central ventilation louvre panels appear recent. Plain banded brick corbels project from piers framing entrance door. Entrance approached by a staircase of 12 risers.