15, THE CLOSE
15, THE CLOSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1194872
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 15, THE CLOSE
- Statutory Address:
- 15, THE CLOSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1194872
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 15, THE CLOSE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 15, THE CLOSE
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:
- 15, 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 11480 09802
Details
LICHFIELD
SK1109NW THE CLOSE 1094-1/4/204 (North side) No.15
GV II
House. Mainly late C17 but incorporating earlier elements (thick front wall and re-used timber) from building in existence by 1367, and with extension and interior remodelling of c1800. Stucco; tile roofs with brick stacks. PLAN: 2-unit plan with wing to left, single-storey wing projecting to right, and double-depth rear wing. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic; 2 gables with parapet between, and parapet between lateral stack and left gable; tall single-storey wing below gable to right. Entrance to left had ashlar porch with panelled pilasters, frieze and cornice, half-glazed door with small-paned glazing over 2 flush panels. Windows have sills, one to ground floor has 12-pane sash, 2 to 1st floor have 9-pane sashes, attic has 2 casement windows. Wing to right has end truncated stack and 3 return windows with 12-pane sashes. 3-window wing to left has coped gable and architraved 12-pane sashes. Right return has 3 gables and varied fenestration including 6/3-pane sash to ground floor, 2 pegged cross-casements with leaded glazing to 1st floor and 2-light leaded casements. Left return has varied casements adjacent to rear of left wing, which has windows with brick sills and heads and 16-pane and 4/8-pane sashes; rear of wing has L-plan single-storey service wing. (Victoria History of the County of Stafford: Greenslade M W: Lichfield: Oxford: 1990-: P.65; Drury P: The Capitular Estate of Dean and Chapter of Lichfield Cathedral: 1987-).
Listing NGR: SK1147909806
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 382772
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Drury, P, The Capitular Estate of Dean and Chapter of Lichfield Cathedral, (1987)
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Stafford, (1990), 65
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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