Selwyn House
Selwyn House, The Close
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1194877
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Selwyn House
- Statutory Address:
- Selwyn House, The Close
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1194877
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Selwyn House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Selwyn House, 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:
- Selwyn House, 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 11658 09811
Details
SK1109NE
1094-1/5/225
LICHFIELD
THE CLOSE (east side)
Selwyn House
(Formerly Listed as: THE CLOSE House occupied by the Lichfield Diocesan Trust)
05/02/52
GV
II
House, now flats. c1780, enlarged early C19. Brick with ashlar dressings, part painted; hipped slate roof. Three storeys with basement; symmetrical five window range; central full-height canted bay has windows to front only. First floor sill band and top cornice and blocking course. Round-headed entrance has pilasters, entablature blocks and pediment, fanlight and fluted frieze over six-fielded-pane door.
Windows have sills, and rubbed brick flat arches with keys, over twelve-pane sashes to ground floor, 6/9-pane sashes to first floor, but that to right of bay has eighteen-pane sash, over nine-pane sashes to second floor, though central window has six-pane sash.
Basement has iron area railings and bull's eyes to cants of bay, one with entrance beneath. Left return has basement and ground floor projection with entrance to basement, mostly twelve-pane sashes and balcony with lattice balustrade and supports to swept roof with shaped frieze, and French window; lateral stack. Right return has basement and ground floor projection and projecting lateral stack.
Rear has two large brick offset buttresses framing projecting left half; ground floor has balcony as above; windows mostly with nine-pane or twelve-pane sashes.
The house is built on the side of the medieval moat and closes the view at the east end of the close.
Listing NGR: SK1166009810
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 382791
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
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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