The best and worst buildings in Leicester built and proposed.

We've done something like this before, but here goes...

Really Like
Town Hall
Most of Town Hall Square
St Mary de Castro
Castle Great Hall
Castle House
Castle Cottages
Castle Gateway
Newarke Gateway
Magazine Gateway
Cathedral
Most of Greyfriar's
The majority of New Walk
Most of Belvoir Street
Grand Hotel
Coffee House on Granby Street
Singer Building
A large proportion of High Street
Pex Building
Jewry Wall
St Nicholas Church
The Crescent
Holy Trinity Church
Newarke Houses Museum
Trinity House
Hawthorn Building
Leicester Uni Engineering Building
Fielding Johnson Building
Fielding Johnson Hospital
London Road Station
A large part of The Lanes
Many of the buildings surrounding the Market
The Curve
Athena
Charles Street Police Station
Luyten's War Memorial
St Mark's Church
St Nicholas Church
Leicester Prison (to look at)
Original LRI buildings
New Walk Centre (strangely)
Fenwicks
All of Bowling Green Street
Most of Pocklington's Walk
Gas Museum and Cottages
Alexandra House and some of the other converted warehouses around there
St George's Church
De Montfort Hall
...and many, many more.

Love to see demolished
Holiday Inn and Car Park at St Nicholas
Victoria Hall
Crown House
Epic House
Haymarket shopping centre
Indoor Market
That horrible little tower block at the bottom of Millstone Lane
Edith Murphy House
Gala Casino
International Hotel
The row of blighted office blocks on Granby Street
Elizabeth House
Staples
St Matthew's
The small business units on Dun's Lane
The crap little office building in the Pex car park

Far less than I thought...

Worst

Leicester Crown Court - Shiny red brick blandness - It was so bland they added the glass entrance canopy at a later date to give it the semblance of interest

Best

Cardinal Telephone Exchange - A Brutalist masterpeice

Most of the older pre-50s buildings a loveky.

The problem with our worst builldings is that they are in such prominant locations. E.g Staples, Littlewoods Building, etc.

The Sky Plaza is getting worse day-by-day - the recent graffitti doesn't help.

Cardinal Exchange is definitely a favourite of mine.

I don't think it looks bad at all!
The vertical fins really add to it and the overall quality seems to show when put against other buildings of the same age

It's a bit like the brutalist tower at Nottingham University, good quality, with much more details to it than you typical tower block

I can imagine both of these buildings being timeless and probably listed one day

iamtheSTIG said:

I don't think it looks bad at all!
The vertical fins really add to it and the overall quality seems to show when put against other buildings of the same age

It's a bit like the brutalist tower at Nottingham University, good quality, with much more details to it than you typical tower block

I can imagine both of these buildings being timeless and probably listed one day

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Thanks for a bit of rational thought there - I agree Cardinal Telephone Exchange should be listed.

I think the Civic Society if they are worth their salt should be advocating to English Heritage to set this in motion.

NB CTE seems to be more occupied these days with more office lights being turned on