St Joseph's Convent South East Building
ST JOSEPH'S CONVENT SOUTH EAST BUILDING, LICHFIELD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195357
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jan-1951
- List Entry Name:
- St Joseph's Convent South East Building
- Statutory Address:
- ST JOSEPH'S CONVENT SOUTH EAST BUILDING, LICHFIELD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195357
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jan-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 16-Feb-1994
- List Entry Name:
- St Joseph's Convent South East Building
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST JOSEPH'S CONVENT SOUTH EAST BUILDING, LICHFIELD ROAD
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:
- ST JOSEPH'S CONVENT SOUTH EAST BUILDING, LICHFIELD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Stafford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 92640 22694
Details
STAFFORD
SJ9222NE LICHFIELD ROAD 590-1/12/59 (South West side) 16/01/51 St Joseph's Convent south-east building (Formerly Listed as: LICHFIELD ROAD St Joseph's Convent)
GV II
Formerly known as: Forebridge Villa LICHFIELD ROAD. House, now convent. c1810 with later additions. Regency style. MATERIALS: stucco with ashlar dressings; hipped slate roof with stucco stacks. PLAN: double-depth, central staircase plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; symmetrical 5-window range. Wide eaves with scrolled brackets. 2-storey porch has portico with paired baseless columns, frieze with scrolled relief carving and cross to pediment, front steps have flanking scrolled prjections; round-headed entrance has architrave and fanlight over door with 2 tall round-headed panels; stained glass return windows. Windows have sills, those to ground floor have 16-pane sashes, those to 1st floor with 4/8-pane sashes but central window has simple architrave and small-paned casement. 3-window left return has recessed centre with canted angles and entrance with consoled cornice and rich cresting; similar cornices and cresting to flanking ground floor windows, central 1st floor window has balcony with Greek key; casements. Right return has rectangular oriel raised above eaves on enriched brackets, with wide bracketed eaves and C20 casements. Rear has single-storey wing, and later 3-storey wing with cast-iron verandah with Tudor arches and quatrefoils; late C20 lift shaft with pyramidal roof. INTERIOR has rich Greek detail: cornices and doorcases with architraves, enriched friezes and consoled cornices; full-height hall has balcony with balustrading and skylight, stair to rear has iron anthemion balusters and window with painted glass roundel; entrance hall has contemporary painted glass with arms of original owner. HISTORY: the house was taken over by the Sisters of St Joseph of Cluny in 1907. (Victoria County History of Staffordshire: Greenslade MW: A History of Stafford (taken from VCH): London: 1979-: 251; Victoria County History of Staffordshire: Greenslade MW: A History of Stafford (VCH): London: 1979-: 251).
Listing NGR: SJ9264022694
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 384005
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Stafford, (1979), 251
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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