{"id":25873,"date":"2020-04-03T17:57:09","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T16:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=25873"},"modified":"2020-04-03T17:57:09","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T16:57:09","slug":"ihbcs-heritage-from-the-doorstep-local-celebrations-of-a-rare-example-of-industrial-heritage-that-avoided-demolition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=25873","title":{"rendered":"IHBC\u2019s \u2018Heritage from the doorstep\u2019: Local celebrations of a rare example of industrial heritage that avoided demolition"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-25874\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Leics_Live_030420.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"262\" \/>A rare example of city&#8217;s industrial heritage which avoided demolition wrecking ball \u2013 \u2018tiny cottages date back to 1820s\u2019 \u2013 are featured in the\u00a0 <em>Leicester Mercury<\/em>.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>Leicester Mercury<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n<p>This great photo from our archive shows a tiny slice of Leicester\u2019s industrial history pictured in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>Tucked away in the heart of the city, we imagine some people do not even realise they are there.<\/p>\n<p>These are Cramant Cottages, off King Street, in 1986, looking in a rather sorry state before the grade II-listed buildings were restored a couple of years later.<\/p>\n<p>The cottages were originally built to house industrial workers between 1820 and 1830.<\/p>\n<p>They were named after Hannah Cramant, a schoolmistress who lived in one of the properties with her five children.<\/p>\n<p>The census of 1841 showed there were 22 people living in the tiny homes.<\/p>\n<p>The terrace, which managed to avoid being demolished during the wholesale slum clearance that took place in the city in the 1950s and 60s, is a rare example of back-to-back housing in Leicester.<\/p>\n<p>The cottages backed onto a wall with no rear windows or doors.<\/p>\n<p>The terrace is located behind No. 54, close to the King Street junction with Princess Road West.<\/p>\n<p>According to Historic England, the terrace comprised \u201csix cottages of identical design red brick, slate roofs, tall chimney stacks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo storey, single aspect fronting the former rear garden of No 54 King Street.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne room to each floor, the upper room reached from a staircase at one side of the ground floor room.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leicestermercury.co.uk\/news\/history\/rare-example-citys-industrial-heritage-3954382\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rare example of city&#8217;s industrial heritage which avoided demolition wrecking ball \u2013 \u2018tiny cottages date back to 1820s\u2019 \u2013 are featured in the\u00a0 Leicester Mercury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25875,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25873\/revisions\/25875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}