Three Spires House

16, BIRD STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1187357
Date first listed:
06-Mar-1970
List Entry Name:
Three Spires House
Statutory Address:
16, BIRD STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1187357
Date first listed:
06-Mar-1970
List Entry Name:
Three Spires House
Statutory Address 1:
16, BIRD STREET
Statutory Address 2:
THREE SPIRES HOUSE, 16A, BIRD 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
16, BIRD STREET
Statutory Address:
THREE SPIRES HOUSE, 16A, BIRD 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 11580 09489

Details

LICHFIELD

SK1109SE BIRD STREET 1094-1/8/25 (North East side) 06/03/70 Nos.16 AND 16A Three Spires House (No.16A)

GV II

Shop and offices. c1800. Brick, the facade painted, with ashlar dressings; hipped tile roof. L-plan. Georgian style. 3 storeys; 2-window range. Platt band over 1st floor and top cornice. Early C20 shop front has fielded-panelled pilaster strips and bracketed cornice, elliptical arch with fretted head on Composite colonnettes with recessed entrance behind. Upper windows have rubbed brick flat arches, those to 1st floor with 12-pane sashes, those to 2nd floor with 6-pane sashes over sills. Return has several blocked entrances and windows, some C20 casements; later gabled wing to rear with end stack; entrance to No.16A: Three Spires House.

Listing NGR: SK1158009489

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
382572
Legacy System:
LBS

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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