5 Market Street, Leicester, Leicestershire
Key Features
- Prime city centre location
- 8 apartments with open plan retail unit
- Existing planning consent
- Purchase price: £700,000
Description
Former banking premises that comprise an imposing four-storey building with a front facade constructed in a mixture of stone and brickwork under a pitched insulated slate roof. The front elevation incorporates decorative stone mullion windows to the upper floors, together with timber sash windows. There is an existing shop front, with direct access out onto Market Street.
The building has been cleared to a shell finish to allow the purchaser to refurbish the ground floor to provide a single or multiple retail units, together with the refurbishment of the open plan accommodation on the upper levels to provide for the consented scheme. There is basement accommodation that is anticipated will form ancillary accommodation associated with the retail uses on the ground floor.
Map Location
Property details
- Tenure
- Freehold
- Council Tax Band
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- Date Posted
- 2026-07-17
Utilities & Restrictions
Utilities
- Electricity
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- Water
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- Heating
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- Broadband
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- Sewerage
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Rights & Restrictions
- Public Rights of Way
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- Private Rights of Way
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- Listed Property
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- Restrictions
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Listed status, conservation areas and planning constraints for this location are in the full report.
Property Features
- Accessibility
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- Parking
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- Garden
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Beyond the particulars: planning activity, flood history, heritage and ground risks, checked for this exact spot.
Connectivity
Broadband
Fastest speed available at this postcode
10 Gbps
Gigabit full fibre
Suitable for
- 4K streaming on every screen
- Full-time home working
- Online gaming & big downloads
Mobile signal
Outdoor predictions; indoor signal depends on building materials.
Ofcom Connected Nations postcode-level predictions. Speeds and signal are modelled, not measured, and vary between addresses and providers.
Signal is the easy part. Planning activity, flood history and protected designations here are in the full report.
Nearest Schools
Primary
- King Richard III Infant and Nursery School994 metresOfsted: Requires improvement
- Ages
- 3 to 7
- Pupils
- 269
- Type
- Community school
- Sparkenhoe Community Primary School0.6 milesOfsted: Good
- Ages
- 3 to 11
- Pupils
- 450
- Type
- Academy converter
- Hazel Community Primary School0.7 milesOfsted report card · Jan 2026
- Ages
- 4 to 11
- Pupils
- 410
- Type
- Community school
- Slater Primary School0.7 milesOfsted: Requires improvement
- Ages
- 3 to 11
- Pupils
- 189
- Type
- Community school
- Shaftesbury Junior School0.7 milesOfsted: Good
- Ages
- 7 to 11
- Pupils
- 239
- Type
- Community school
Secondary
- Castle Mead Academy879 metresOfsted: Outstanding
- Ages
- 11 to 16
- Pupils
- 1,223
- Type
- Free schools
- Moat Community College957 metresNo Ofsted rating
- Ages
- 11 to 16
- Pupils
- 1,091
- Type
- Community school
- Brook Mead Academy1.2 milesOfsted: Outstanding
- Ages
- 11 to 16
- Pupils
- 1,104
- Type
- Free schools
- Fullhurst Community College1.3 milesOfsted: Good
- Ages
- 11 to 16
- Pupils
- 1,441
- Type
- Foundation school
- Madani Boys School1.5 milesNo Ofsted rating
- Ages
- 11 to 16
- Pupils
- 450
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Faith
- Muslim
- Gender
- Boys
Distances are straight-line from the advertised location. Source: the national school registers (DfE, Welsh Government, Scottish Government) and Ofsted.
Schools are just the start: sold prices nearby, planning activity and any flood history are in the full report.
Amenities
Supermarket
GP surgery
Pharmacy
Hospital
Green space
Straight-line distances from the advertised location. Sources: NHS records, Geolytix supermarket locations, OS Open Greenspace and the national trails registers.
The area stacks up? Now check the location itself: planning nearby, protected designations and past flooding.
Getting Around
Nearest station
Nearest bus stop
Typical drive times
Straight-line distances from the advertised location; drive times are typical free-flow times over OpenStreetMap road data, so allow more at peak. Public transport locations from DfT NaPTAN.
Easy to reach matters. So do planning activity, flood history and ground risks: all in the full report.
Flood Risk
From Environment Agency flood map open data, checked around the advertised map pin and allowing for the listed acreage where known. This summary comes from LandSale, the advertising platform, not from the listing agent, and is not part of the agent's particulars. Risk can vary across a single holding, so verify anything critical through your own searches before committing.
Rivers and the sea
Surface water
The detail behind these bandings
The full report pinpoints where this location sits on the flood maps, and runs the deeper checks that usually only surface after an offer.
- Exact flood zones & annual chances (included in the full report)
- Any recorded past flooding (included in the full report)
- Planning activity nearby (included in the full report)
- Heritage & conservation (included in the full report)
- Protected nature designations (included in the full report)
- Ground risks (included in the full report)
- Sold prices nearby (included in the full report)
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Innes England Ltd, Leicester
Peat House 1 Waterloo Way Leicester LE1 6LP
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