Darwin House
DARWIN HOUSE, BEACON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1187355
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Darwin House
- Statutory Address:
- DARWIN HOUSE, BEACON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1187355
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Darwin House
- Statutory Address 1:
- DARWIN HOUSE, BEACON STREET
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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:
- DARWIN HOUSE, 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 11412 09709
Details
LICHFIELD
SK1109NW BEACON STREET 1094-1/4/18 (North East side) 05/02/52 Darwin House
GV I
House. c1758, converted from medieval timber-framed range on the west side of the south court of Vicars' Close. For Erasmus Darwin. Brick with stucco dressings; double-span tile roof with brick end stacks. Double-depth, central staircase plan. Georgian style. 2 storeys with basement; symmetrical 3-window range. Stucco basement; 2 sill bands; top modillioned cornice and stone-coped brick parapet with 2 balustraded panels. Centre breaks forward under pediment. Round-headed entrance has Tuscan aedicule, round-headed half-glazed door; opposed ashlar steps with iron handrail and arch below. Venetian windows to each floor have Tuscan antae, entablatures, archivolts and sashes with glazing bars; central 1st floor window has eared architrave, triple key and 9-pane sash. Rear has rounded-headed stair window with sash, flanking windows with rubbed brick flat arches and 12-pane sashes; 3 windows above, 2 with 6-pane sashes, one blocked; coped gables and cross-axial stack. Erasmus Darwin, 1731-1802, lived here until c1781. He was a doctor and a member of the Lunar Society whose researches into botany and zoology led him to explore a theory of evolution. He was grandfather of Charles Darwin. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire: London: 1974-: P.192-3; Victoria History of the County of Stafford: Greenslade M W: Lichfield: Oxford: 1990-: P.64; Lichfield Council: Erasmus Darwin).
Listing NGR: SK1141209705
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 382563
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Erasmus Darwin, ()
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Stafford, (1990), 64
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974), 192-3
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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