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Latitude: 52.6289 / 52°37'43"N
Longitude: -1.1365 / 1°8'11"W
OS Eastings: 458541
OS Northings: 303806
OS Grid: SK585038
Mapcode National: GBR FGM.2H
Mapcode Global: WHDJJ.J50Z
Plus Code: 9C4WJVH7+G9
Entry Name: Luke Turner and Company former Elastic Webbing Factory
Listing Date: 16 June 1993
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1361040
English Heritage Legacy ID: 188870
ID on this website: 101361040
Location: Leicester, Leicestershire, LE2
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 The Holy Spirit
Church of England Diocese: Leicester
Tagged with: Architectural structure
SK 5803-5903
9/10016
LEICESTER
HENSHAW STREET
Luke Turner and Company, former elastic webbing factory
II
Elastic webbing factory.1893. Designed by Stott and Sons of Oldham & Manchester.
Iron framed with brick cladding and hipped slate roofs. Eight bays to east four storey, seven bays to west two storey.
Henshaw Street front has on the ground floor fifteen bays,each with two twelve-pane wooden glazing bar windows per bay, with lower brick panels and between each bay an iron stantion clad with an iron plate.The horizontal girders are clad with wooden plates, and the junctions are clad with iron capital plates. The three and a half bays to the right are masked by a later addition. Above fifteen similar bays. Above again, to the right two storeys of eight bays with similar articulation. To the right a set back brick stair tower with a single window to each floor. The yard front is similar with two twenty-two-pane wooden glazing bar windows per bay. The right bay of the four storey section has pairs of taking-in doors on each floor and beyond a small, projecting brick stair tower.
Interior: each floor has two rows of iron columns running down the centre. The top floor has exposed iron trusses supporting the hipped cross roofs.
This building is listed as an extremely early example of an exposed iron frame building.
Listing NGR: SK5854103806
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