Numbers 1-9A Newton's College and Attached Gate Pier
NUMBERS 1-9A NEWTON'S COLLEGE AND ATTACHED GATE PIER, THE CLOSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1194875
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 1-9A Newton's College and Attached Gate Pier
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 1-9A NEWTON'S COLLEGE AND ATTACHED GATE PIER, THE CLOSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1194875
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 1-9A Newton's College and Attached Gate Pier
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 1-9A NEWTON'S COLLEGE AND ATTACHED GATE PIER, THE CLOSE
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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:
- NUMBERS 1-9A NEWTON'S COLLEGE AND ATTACHED GATE PIER, 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 11451 09691
Details
LICHFIELD
SK1109NW THE CLOSE 1094-1/4/222 (South West side) 05/02/52 Nos.1-9A Newton's College and attached gate pier (Formerly Listed as: THE CLOSE Newton Buildings)
GV II*
Almshouses. 1800-03, part demolished, 1929. By Joseph Potter Snr of Lichfield. For Andrew Newton. Brick with ashlar dressings and front facing; graduated slate roof with ashlar stacks. Double-depth plan. Classical style. 2 storeys; 14-window range (originally symmetrical 17-window range until right end demolished); centre breaks forward under pediment. Plain plinth, platt band over ground floor and top frieze and cornice; end pilaster strips; centre has rusticated ground floor. Round-headed entrance to centre has fanlight with flat wooden glazing bars over paired 3-panel, one glazed 2 flush, doors; cast-iron overthrow with lantern. Windows have sills; centre has 2 round-headed ground floor sashed windows in round-headed recesses, 1st floor has niche with flanking narrow windows with 4-pane sashes and end windows with 12-pane sashes; 7-window range to left and 4-window range to right have windows with 12-pane sashes, one narrow window with 4-pane sash to 1st floor left end. 6 cross-axial stacks and one end stack. Left return has 2 blind windows to each floor, those to ground floor in round-headed recesses, to rear angle an attached gate pier to rear entrance; right return similar, with one leaded window. Rear has ashlar platt band and cornice; central round-headed entrance has rusticated ashlar surround and cornice, others have slate canopies and small-paned half-glazed doors; windows have rubbed brick flat arches. Built to provide accommodation for the widows and single daughters of clergymen. (Victoria History of the County of Stafford: Greenslade M W: Lichfield: Oxford: 1990-: P.67).
Listing NGR: SK1145109691
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 382787
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Stafford, (1990), 67
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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