The Manor House
THE MANOR HOUSE, LICHFIELD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197029
- Date first listed:
- 11-May-1950
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- THE MANOR HOUSE, LICHFIELD STREET
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- Date:
- 1999-08-29
- Reference:
- IOE01/00958/02
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197029
- Date first listed:
- 11-May-1950
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE MANOR HOUSE, LICHFIELD 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:
- THE MANOR HOUSE, LICHFIELD STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Tamworth (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 20345 04080
Details
TAMWORTH
SK2004SW LICHFIELD STREET 670-1/6/105 (North side) 11/05/50 No.95 The Manor House
GV II
House, now offices. Early C19 remodelling of earlier house, with C17/18 origins. Brick with ashlar dressings; hipped tile roof. Georgian style. Double-depth central-staircase plan. 2 storeys; symmetrical 5-window range, 2 windows to each end in forward breaks. Ashlar plinth, ground floor sill band; top cornice. Entrance up 3 steps has doorcase with architrave, fluted frieze and consoled cornice, overlight to 6-panel door. Windows have rubbed brick flat arches, those to ground floor over 12-pane sashes; 1st floor has windows with sills, and 12-pane top-hung casements. End small single-storey wings have entrances with doorcases, that to left with stone-coped parapet, that to right with segmental-headed window with 12-pane sash. Rear has architraved entrance with large windows to forward break to left with 12-pane sashes. Interior much altered, with stick-baluster stair. Reputed to be the home of Sir Thomas Guy, the founder of Guy's Hospital, London and Guy's Almshouses, Tamworth, who also built the Town Hall (q.v.).
Listing NGR: SK2034504080
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386534
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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