Brooke House
BROOKE HOUSE, 24, DAM STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187751
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Brooke House
- Statutory Address:
- BROOKE HOUSE, 24, DAM STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187751
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Brooke House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BROOKE HOUSE, 24, DAM 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:
- BROOKE HOUSE, 24, DAM 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 11705 09678
Details
LICHFIELD
SK1109NE DAM STREET 1094-1/5/90 (North East side) 05/02/52 No.24 Brooke House
GV II
House, now office. c1810. Brick with ashlar dressings; parapeted roof. L-plan. Georgian style. 3 storeys; 2-window range. Plain brick parapet with cornice. Entrance has doorcase with panelled pilasters, and bracketed cornice, blind fanlight with Y-tracery over half-glazed door. Windows have sills, and rubbed brick flat arches with keys over 12-pane sashes, those to 2nd floor over 6-pane sashes; louvred shutters to 1st floor windows. Ashlar plaque above entrance, placed here by the antiquarian Richard Greene in the C18, records the site of the death of Lord Brooke, Parliamentary commander in the Civil War, who was shot during the 1st siege of the Close, 2nd March 1643. INTERIOR: front room has segmental-headed recess; dogleg staircase to rear with stick balusters, wreathed handrail and no newels; rear entrance has 6-fielded-panel door and inner entrance with radial-bar fanlight over half-glazed door. (Victoria History of the County of Stafford: Greenslade M W: Lichfield: Oxford: 1990-: P.169).
Listing NGR: SK1170509678
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 382643
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Stafford, (1990), 169
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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