Davidson House and attached railings
Davidson House and attached railings, 67, Upper St John Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1194882
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Davidson House and attached railings
- Statutory Address:
- Davidson House and attached railings, 67, Upper St John Street
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1194882
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Davidson House and attached railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- Davidson House and attached railings, 67, Upper St John Street
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:
- Davidson House and attached railings, 67, Upper St John Street
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 11873 09014
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 9 April 2024 to amend details in the description and to reformat the text to current standards
SK1109SE
1094-1/8/234
LICHFIELD
UPPER ST JOHN STREET (East side)
No.67
Davidson House and attached railings
(Formerly Listed as: UPPER ST JOHN STREET No.67 South Staffordshire Regimental Museum)
05/02/52
GV
II
House, now office. c1810. Brick with ashlar dressings; hipped slate roof with two large brick stacks. Gable facing, front to left.
Three storeys; three-window range. Ashlar plinth, sill bands and top modillioned cornice with blocking course.
Central entrance with architrave and overlight to paired three-panel doors, in altered porch with slender Tuscan column to right; bay window to left has cornice. Windows have pilasters, friezes and cornices; tripartite bay window with colonnettes and 8:12:8-pane sashes; similar window to right has brick piers and central open pediment; two similar tripartite windows to first floor have colonnettes and central open pediments, flanking window with open pediment over 12-pane sash; second floor windows have architraves to six-pane sashes.
Terrace to right end has steps to street level and plain iron railings to both. Street facade has similar details; high plinth, tripartite windows to ground and first floors, that to ground floor has brick piers.
Rear has two-storey gabled service range. Right return has cogged brick cornice and varied fenestration.
INTERIOR: windows have shutters.
Thomas Johnson, a noted Lichfield architect, lived and worked here from before 1834 until his death in 1853. From 1938 to 1963 the building housed the South Staffordshire Regimental Museum, named after Brigadier General C.S.Davidson.
(Victoria History of the County of Stafford: Greenslade M W: Lichfield: Oxford: 1990-: P.131, 169).
Listing NGR: SK1187309014
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 382802
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Stafford, (1990)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974), 131, 169
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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