Ruskins
20, BIRD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187358
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Ruskins
- Statutory Address:
- 20, BIRD STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187358
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Ruskins
- Statutory Address 1:
- 20, BIRD STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- 20A, BIRD STREET
- Statutory Address 3:
- RUSKINS, 22, 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.
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:
- 20, BIRD STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 20A, BIRD STREET
- Statutory Address:
- RUSKINS, 22, 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 11572 09498
Details
LICHFIELD
SK1109SE BIRD STREET 1094-1/8/27 (North East side) 05/02/52 Nos.20, 20A AND 22 Ruskins (No.22) (Formerly Listed as: BIRD STREET (North East side) No.20) (Formerly Listed as: BIRD STREET (North East side) No.20A) (Formerly Listed as: BIRD STREET (North East side) No.22)
GV II
Shop, now restaurant and offices. c1800 with remaining earlier structure. Brick with ashlar dressings; tile roof with brick end stack. L-plan. Georgian style. 3 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range. 1st floor sill band and top cornice. Early C19 shop front has panelled pilaster strips and entablature over recessed central entrance with 6-fielded-panel door and return entrances and bowed plate glass windows, end bow windows with plate glass. Upper windows have rubbed brick flat arches, those to 1st floor over 24-pane sashes, those to 2nd floor with sills and 16-pane sashes. Large wrought-iron lamp bracket. Rear has long gabled wing and shorter, higher, plastered wing. INTERIOR noted as having timber-framing.
Listing NGR: SK1157209498
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 382574
- 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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