8 The Close

8, The Close

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1194870
Date first listed:
06-Mar-1970
List Entry Name:
8 The Close
Statutory Address:
8, The Close
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1194870
Date first listed:
06-Mar-1970
List Entry Name:
8 The Close
Statutory Address 1:
8, The Close

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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.

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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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Location

Statutory Address:
8, The Close

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 11459 09722

Details

SK1109NW
1094-1/4/198

LICHFIELD
THE CLOSE (west side)
No. 8

06/03/70

GV
II
House. c1860 refronting of earlier, possibly C18 house. Brick with ashlar dressings; double-gabled tile roof with brick stack. Right-angle plan.

Three storeys; two window range. Plaster plinth; gables with enriched bargeboards with pendants; brick pilaster to left end. Segmental-headed entrance to right end has roll-moulded reveals and four-pane door, gabled timber porch with gable as above. Two storey canted bay window to left has stop-chamfered jambs, timber panelling between floors and cornice, casements; other windows have moulded sills and segmental-pointed heads with ashlar springers and hoods with carved stops, that to first floor right is tripartite with two colonnettes with foliate capitals. Stack to right of valley. Cast-iron rainwater head has dragon and downspout. Rear has two storey lean-to outshut with tall stair window with small-paned glazing in recess.

Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SK1145809722

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
382766
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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