Milley's Hospital
MILLEY'S HOSPITAL, 7, BEACON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1187347
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Milley's Hospital
- Statutory Address:
- MILLEY'S HOSPITAL, 7, BEACON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1187347
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Milley's Hospital
- Statutory Address 1:
- MILLEY'S HOSPITAL, 7, BEACON STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- MILLEY'S HOSPITAL, 7, BEACON STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Lichfield (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lichfield
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 11355 09759
Details
LICHFIELD
SK1109NW BEACON STREET 1094-1/4/4 (South West side) 05/02/52 No.7 Milley's Hospital (Formerly Listed as: Milley Hospital)
GV II*
Almshouse. 1504 with later alterations, late C18 rear addition and extensive restoration of 1906 by C Lynham; addition of 1985-7. For Dr Thomas Milley. Brick with ashlar dressings; tile roof with brick end stacks, that to right large and to front of ridge. EXTERIOR: Tudor style. 2 storeys with attic; symmetrical 5-window range. Entrance in 2-storey gabled porch has elliptical brick arch and wide-boarded door; window above has pilaster strips and pediment, and 2-light casement with iron opening casement; apron panel with inscription recording the foundation; 1906 flanking single-chamfered lights and end 3-light single-chamfered-mullioned windows; 2 gabled dormers; all with leaded glazing. Rear has gabled wing, the left return wall of which was moved back in 1906, with end gabled wing and re-entrant stair wing; similar windows and some 2-light casements; left return has segmental-headed windows with terracotta sills and 4-pane casements. C20 wing to rear. INTERIOR: inner entrance has original door with strap hinges; hall has stop-chamfered beams, close-studded partition walls and doorways with slight ogee heads and plank doors; 1st floor and corridors to wings have similar details, some 3-panel doors and one with wooden latch; chapel to 1st floor centre has simple details: plain benches and window with C17 or C18 latch; open well stick-baluster staircase. HISTORY: the hospital was founded in 1424 and re-founded 1502-4 by Dr Milley for almswomen; it is built on the site of the town ditch. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire: London: 1974-: P.192; Victoria History of the County of Stafford: Oxford: 1970-: P.275-8).
Listing NGR: SK1135509759
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 382549
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Stafford, (1970), 275-8
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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