Former telephone exchange, Wharf Street, Leicester
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Former telephone exchange, Wharf Street, Leicester
Image: © Stephen Richards Taken: 24 Aug 2011
A GPO architects' job, 1958-60, and not a bad one at that. Long and low (twenty-seven bays by five storeys), with distinctive fenestration and rounded ground-floor projections at each end which follow the curve of the road in front. Unusually for such a building it has been converted to flats.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.637735
Longitude
-1.12781