Colin Grazier Hotel and attached wall

21, Church Street, Tamworth, B79 7BX

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1197043
Date first listed:
28-Feb-1992
List Entry Name:
Colin Grazier Hotel and attached wall
Statutory Address:
21, Church Street, Tamworth, B79 7BX
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Date:
2007-08-21
Reference:
IOE01/16444/17
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1197043
Date first listed:
28-Feb-1992
List Entry Name:
Colin Grazier Hotel and attached wall
Statutory Address 1:
21, Church Street, Tamworth, B79 7BX

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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:
21, Church Street, Tamworth, B79 7BX

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 20722 04067

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 25 January 2021 to amend the name and address and reformat the text to current standards

SK2004SE
670-1/7/51

TAMWORTH
CHURCH STREET (north side)
No.21 Colin Grazier Hotel and attached wall

(Formerly listed as No.21 Social Services Department Area Office and attached wall)
GV
II
Shown on O.S. map as No 25.
House, at one time a police station, now hotel. Early C18 with later additions. Brick with stone dressings; tile roof with brick stacks. Early Georgian style. Two storeys; seven window range. Cornice to ground floor; top wooden modillioned cornice; coped gable. Two entrances have architraves, friezes and cornices, six-panel doors. Ground floor has windows with sills, and rubbed brick flat arches with keystones over 20-pane horned sashes, but window between entrances has twelve-pane sash; first floor has round-headed windows with keystones and small-paned horned sashes. End stacks and cross-axial stacks. Rear has gabled wing with similar windows, attic has two small-paned horizontally sliding sashes; single-storey extension ending in late C19 cell block with ashlar sills and lintels to barred windows, return incorporates C18 garden wall; early C20 wing to right.

Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SK2071904067

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
386455
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.

Ordnance survey map of Colin Grazier Hotel and attached wall

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