DEMOLITION OF 38 KING STREET SILEBY

The building was L-shaped, 3 storeys high, and the older part of the building forming the foot of the 'L'.
This had a frontage of 915cm. to King Street and faced north, it stood on a plinth of irregular graniteblocks, with odd pieces of Barrow limestone inter-mingled with them, standing 3 feet high and 18" thick,(i.e.g1.5 cm high, 45.7 cm. thick).

The plinth may have been retained from an earlier building on this site. The west side gable-end had a granite and limestone wall up to the first- floor level. The street facade consisted of the afore-mentioned plinth, above which there were two storeys built with red bricks with a blue brick diaper pattern, and a projecting red brick hood to all the windows and doorway, these were connected with a projecting red brick string course, the bricks measured 235mm long x 118mm wide x 50mm thick.

The third storey was built at a later stage with modern sized bricks, (229mm x 11gmm x 76mm) presumably for the purpose of housing a knitting frame; this is suggested by the arrangement of the windows to allow the maximum light to enter the rooms. Such extensions were common in the turn of the 18th-19th century, in the villages of the Soar valley.

On the ground floor there were two rooms, the first measured 366cm x 412cm, and the second 457cm x 414cm which also had a brick fireplace built of the smaller-sized bricks. Each room had a ceiling beam running centrally, and parallel to the frontage, in section 229mm.wide, and 268mm.deep, with joists running at right-angles, in section 90 mm. x 90 mm. and at 407mm. centres.

The floor in the smaller room was of herring-bone pattern brickwork, brick size 235mm. x 115mm, in the larger room the floor was of concrete. The second storey rooms were of similar sizes, whilst the third storey had an uneven concrete floor, with a fretted door dividing the two rooms.

The line of a previous steeper roof pitch was clearly