List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: ENGINEERING BUILDING, UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER
List Entry Number: 1074756
Location
ENGINEERING BUILDING, UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER, UNIVERSITY ROAD
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County:
District: City of Leicester
District Type: Unitary Authority
Parish: Non Civil Parish
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II*
Date first listed: 30-Mar-1993
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
Legacy System Information
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 188869
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List Entry Description
Summary of Building
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History
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Details
LEICESTER UNIVERSITY ROAD
SK 50 SE
17/10009 Engineering Building,
University of Leicester
II* (star)
University engineering building. 1961-63. James Stirling and
James Gowan. Red engineering brick, red tile clad surfaces
and patent glazing; concrete frame; flat roofs to towers. Pair
of multi-storey towers, one for offices and one for research,
set above a pair of lecture theatres with raking undersides,
placed upon a brick podium. These are attached to a low
engineering workshop complex, mostly single storeyed but with
a taller section to south-west perimeter which has overhanging
upper storey above recessed gallery. Octagonal chimney rises
from midst of low workshop block. Complex, sculptural
composition; office tower fully glazed, (present glazing not
original); lower research tower with walls mostly of brick,
having narrow horizontal bands of glazing canted outwards to
each storey. Lecture theatres blind with tiled walls.
Engineering workshops with brick walls and roofs fully glazed
in a series of ridges at 45° to perimeter of block; perimeter
finished in a complex rhythm of chamfers, squares and points.
James stirling, 1950-1974, John Jacobus
(Thames and Hudson, 1975)
Listing NGR: SK5942302865
Selected Sources
Books and journalsJacobus, J, James Stirling 1950-1974, (1975)
Map
National Grid Reference: SK 59423 02865
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