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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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:: 16-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

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 1-9A NEWTON'S COLLEGE AND ATTACHED GATE PIER, THE CLOSE

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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

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Sources

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Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Stafford, (1990), 67

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.