The Mansion House and Attached Wall

THE MANSION HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL, LICHFIELD STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1196746
Date first listed:
04-Aug-1971
List Entry Name:
The Mansion House and Attached Wall
Statutory Address:
THE MANSION HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL, LICHFIELD STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1196746
Date first listed:
04-Aug-1971
List Entry Name:
The Mansion House and Attached Wall
Statutory Address 1:
THE MANSION HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL, LICHFIELD STREET

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
THE MANSION HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL, LICHFIELD STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Staffordshire
District:
Stafford (District Authority)
Parish:
Stone
National Grid Reference:
SJ 90501 33703

Details

STONE

SJ9033 LICHFIELD STREET, Stone 651-1/7/38 (North side) 04/08/71 The Mansion House and attached wall

GV II

House. c1770 with early C19 alterations. Brick with ashlar dressings; tile roof with brick end stacks. Gable facing, front to left; central staircase plan. Georgian style. 3 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range. Top cornice and coped gables with kneelers. Ashlar ground floor has wooden frieze and cornice, round-headed entrance has Doric aedicule with open pediment, fanlight with radial glazing bars over 6-fielded-panel door; flanking French windows have fluted pilasters; upper windows have rusticated wedge lintels, those to 1st floor over 12-pane sashes, those to 2nd floor over 6-pane sashes and with sills. Enriched cast-iron balcony over entire facade. Right return has two 1st floor windows with cast-iron balconies; rear wing of 3 storeys has modillioned brick cornice; re-entrant lean-to porch; varied fenestration: ground floor has 3 segmental-headed windows with wooden frames; 1st floor has small light, 4-pane horned sash and end segmental-headed casement window; 2nd floor has three 3-light casement windows with iron opening casements and leaded glazing, end window with small-paned glazing. End stack to hipped end. Rear C20 entrance and light with two 4-pane sashes to 1st floor. Left return has tall segmental-headed recess with 1st floor window with pegged frame. Interior: open well stair has open string, alternate column-on-vase and barleysugar balusters, turned newels and ramped handrail; some window shutters and 6-panel doors; Minton mosaic tiles. The house was part of the iron works of Rangeley and Dixon, founded c1818, later Rangeley and Diggles, who made mileposts for the Trent and Mersey Canal; closed down, 1829 (cf Milepost). (Bolton J M: Canal Town Stone: Wolverhampton: 1981-: 10 AND 67).

Listing NGR: SJ9050133703

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Legacy System number:
386012
Legacy System:
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Sources

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Bolton, J M, Canal Town Stone, (1981), 10 AND 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.

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