7 AND 9, BREADMARKET STREET
7 AND 9, BREADMARKET STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187741
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 7 AND 9, BREADMARKET STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 7 AND 9, BREADMARKET STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187741
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 7 AND 9, BREADMARKET STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 7 AND 9, BREADMARKET 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:
- 7 AND 9, BREADMARKET 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 11732 09534
Details
LICHFIELD
SK1109NE BREADMARKET STREET 1094-1/5/64 (South West side) 05/02/52 Nos.7 AND 9 (Formerly Listed as: BREADMARKET STREET (South West side) Three Crowns Inn)
GV II
Public house, now office and shops. Early C18 with later alterations. Stucco with tile roof and brick cross-axial stack. Georgian style. 3 storeys; 5-window range. 2 platt bands and top frieze and cornice. Central carriageway with paired doors in altered ground floor has late C20 shop front to left and C20 shop front in traditional style to right; right end has entrance with overlight to 6-fielded-panel door, 2 windows to left have sills and 24-pane sashes. Windows to upper floors have sills, 12-pane sashes to 1st floor, but that to right end has 4-pane sash; 2nd floor has 6-pane sashes, but 2 windows to end with casements with leaded lights. INTERIOR: open well staircase has turned balusters, square newels and moulded handrail. HISTORY: formerly the Three Crowns public house, a plaque records Dr Johnson's stays here during his many visits to Lichfield accompanied by Boswell, who described him as 'monarchising with no fewer than three crowns over his royal brow'.
Listing NGR: SK1173209534
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 382613
- 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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