Leicestershire
Properties and events in Leicestershire
Before heading out for your Heritage Open Days visit, please check entries for last-minute changes.
530 years of Loughborough Grammar School - Tower Opening and Exhibitions
The 1852 Building will be open including the tower, which is accessed by 59 steps up a spiral staircase, giving a great view of Loughborough and surrounding districts. Items from the School's archives will be available to view in adjacent rooms
8 Bowling Green Street
As the current custodians of the historic building at 8 Bowling Green Street, Serendipity Institute for Black Arts and Heritage has researched its fascinating history and the vital role it has played in Leicester since 1865.
Atkins Heritage Tour
Historic Hinckley buildings walking tour, that all have a connection to the notable Atkins hosiery family.
Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre Open Day
Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre invites you to attend our Heritage Open Day! Explore our award-winning exhibition, take a bite-sized guided walk, and meet our enthusiastic volunteers as you discover this important heritage site.
Braunstone Stable Block Museum
Old stables to Braunstone Hall (Winstanley Hotel now). We have 5 rooms of displays of local history and details of the last Lord of the Manor, Major Richard Winstanley.
Guided tours of Kibworth Harcourt Post Mill
Join the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) for a guided tour of this fascinating windmill, not normally open to the public, which we recently repaired and rescued from the Heritage at Risk Register.
Heritage Walk, Medieval Loughborough part of Loughborough Heritage Open Weekend
A Walk around the Medieval part of Loughborough. Pre bookable walks Saturday 20th 10.00am and 2.00pm. Sunday 21st 2.00pm.
Hidden Gems of Leicester Cathedral
Join us for this brand new tour as we look at precious and unusual objects drawn from the history of Leicester Cathedral.
Hinckley and District Museum
Grade II Listed 17th century timber framed and thatched cottages once home to framework knitters and now a local history museum. Cottage garden and tearoom.
Jain Centre Leicester
Features include 44 magnificently carved sandstone pillars, a beautiful temple dome and ceiling with traditional carvings, a white marble floor, mirrored walls, traditional doors at the Garbhagriha (the inner sanctum) and hand-carved staircases.
Leicester Orthodox Synagogue
Discover this Grade II Jewish Place of Worship.
Leicester Secular Hall Open Day
Secular Hall: exhibition & guided tour - Come and see this unique building rooted in Leicester's radical past.
Loughborough All Saints with Holy Trinity Historic Parish Church
As part of Loughborough Heritage Open Weekend, guided tours of the church are available on Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st September. This church is the oldest building in Loughborough with the oldest parts dating back to the 14th century.
Open Days with advice on military memorabilia part of Loughborough Heritage Open Weekend
The Carillon War Memorial Museum will be open 10am till 4pm of 20th and 21st September, Visit the recently re-imagined ground floor museum. You are invited to bring along your own items of military memorabilia. Activities for children.
Phoenix Projection Room Tour
Normally closed to the public, we will be opening up our projection room for this year's Heritage Open Days, with our projectionist talking visitors through the art of film projection.
Queen's Park - a hive of activity! with Loughborough Heritage Open Weekend
A guided walk around Loughborough's Victorian enclosed park, where there is architecture, buildings, bridges, bees, and much more to discover!
St Andrew's Church, Jarrom Street
St Andrew's is one of Leicester's hidden secrets - it looks much bigger and more impressive from the inside than from the outside. It's a Gilbert Scott design from 1860-62 and a lot of decorating and refurbishing has happened in the past 3 years.
St Margaret's Church, Leicester
The Church is open for visitors to browse at their leisure.
St Mary's Church Wymeswold, Open Day and Textile Exhibition
St Mary's church will be open for visitors. There will be a textile exhibition by Wymeswold Textile Group. There will also be an exhibition on the history of the different churches in Wymeswold.
St Peter's Church
St Peter's church, Thornton, a Grade 1 listed, medieval church, listed in Simon Jenkins book, 1000 Best Churches. An exhibition in church entitled 'Historical Thornton', plus local foods for sale on Saturday 13th and a cake stall on Sunday, 14th.