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Latitude: 52.6307 / 52°37'50"N
Longitude: -1.1211 / 1°7'16"W
OS Eastings: 459580
OS Northings: 304019
OS Grid: SK595040
Mapcode National: GBR FKL.FV
Mapcode Global: WHDJJ.R49L
Plus Code: 9C4WJVJH+7G
Entry Name: Former Collegiate School Leicester
Listing Date: 14 March 1975
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1183455
English Heritage Legacy ID: 188622
ID on this website: 101183455
Location: Highfields, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE2
County: City of Leicester
Electoral Ward/Division: Stoneygate
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Leicester
Traditional County: Leicestershire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Leicestershire
Church of England Parish: Leicester The Presentation of Christ
Church of England Diocese: Leicester
Tagged with: Architectural structure
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COLLEGE STREET
The Rowans
Former Collegiate School Leicester
(Formerly listed as Collegiate School Leicester, COLLEGE STREET)
II
1835-6 by J.G. Weightman. Built of white brick with stone dressings, consisting of central hall flanked by classrooms.
Hall facade in Perpendicular style with a five-light four-centred arch window, a niche on each side, and above a circular clerestory window have multifoil cusps in gable end with moulded coping and pinnacles. Single-storey classrooms on each side of hall linked with an interior corridor and externally with castellated and gabled frontage pierced with Tudor-Gothic windows, the whole surmounted with pinnacles the tops of which are missing. The east classroom has extra storey added later C19.
Entrances on north and south ends with ornate doorways. Two symmetrically placed bay windows at each end of main facade. All windows except east and west ends of great hall are in Tudor-Gothic style, rectangular with stone mullions and dripmoulds.
Modern low single-storey flat-roof laboratory attached to front. The great hall roof with hammer-beams and curved braces resting on stone corbels, tie-beams supported by king-posts terminating in decorative bosses.
Listing NGR: SK5958004019
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