Limehurst School Annexe, Shakespeare Street, Loughborough (Locally Listed)

Geo: 52.7738, -1.2075
Date ListedThu 17th June, 2004
CategoryLocally Listed Building
AddressLimehurst School Annexe Shakespeare Street/Dead Lane Loughborough LE11 1QQ
GradeLocally Listed
Grid ReferenceSK5356219872
Description

School. Perhaps last quarter of C19 in origin. Tudor/Gothic Revival styling.
Main building, 2 storey. Single storey accommodation perhaps a later addition.
Severe red brick, with butresses, string courses and stone dressings. Steep pitched slate roofs with bands of decorative scalloped slates. Upstanding stone dressed gables, terra cotta ridge and brick dentilated eaves detail. Main building comprises 3 parallel blocks with gables fronting Dead Lane. False segmental brick arches with decorative terra cotta ?tympanae? above stone lintols to main openings.

The description above describes the salient features of the building as it was at the date of listing. It is given in order to aid identification; it is not intended to be either comprehensive or exclusive.