20, THE CLOSE
20, THE CLOSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1194873
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 20, THE CLOSE
- Statutory Address:
- 20, THE CLOSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1194873
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 20, THE CLOSE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 20, 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:
- 20, 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 11595 09737
Details
LICHFIELD
SK1109NE THE CLOSE 1094-1/5/208 (South side) 05/02/52 No.20 (Formerly Listed as: THE CLOSE Lichfield Theological College)
GV II
House, now divided into two. 1819 or 1833. Brick with ashlar dressings; double-span tile roof with brick end stacks. Double-depth plan. Georgian style. 3 storeys; symmetrical 5-window range. Stucco plinth, 1st floor sill band and top cornice and parapet. Entrance has rusticated opening with Tuscan aedicule with frieze and cornice; recessed porch up steps is rusticated, with large half-glazed door and 6-panel return doors; entrance to left end has rubbed brick flat arch and half-glazed door. Windows have sills, and rubbed brick flat arches over 12-pane sashes, 6-pane sashes to 2nd floor. Rear has centre breaking forward under pediment and with brick terrace to ground floor. INTERIOR: windows have shutters; recorded as having open-well staircase, to right of centre, with cast-iron balustrade. From 1872-1972, the building served as the residence of the principal of the Theological College, which was housed in 1870s additions to the right, of which only the chapel of 1885 (not included) survives, the rest having been demolished in 1981. (Victoria History of the County of Stafford: Greenslade M W: Lichfield: Oxford: 1990-: P.66; Drury P: The Capitular Estate of Dean and Chapter of Lichfield Cathedral: 1987-).
Listing NGR: SK1159609737
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 382776
- 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), 66
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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