The Moat House
THE MOAT HOUSE, LICHFIELD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1208600
- Date first listed:
- 11-May-1950
- List Entry Name:
- The Moat House
- Statutory Address:
- THE MOAT HOUSE, LICHFIELD STREET
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- Date:
- 1999-08-29
- Reference:
- IOE01/00958/01
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1208600
- Date first listed:
- 11-May-1950
- List Entry Name:
- The Moat House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE MOAT 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 MOAT 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 20223 03960
Details
TAMWORTH
SK2003NW LICHFIELD STREET 670-1/8/110 (South side) 11/05/50 The Moat House
GV II*
House, now restaurant. c1572 with C18 refenestration and C19 and C20 additions. Brick, some ashlar dressings; tile roof with brick stacks. Elizabethan style. H-plan. 2 storeys with attic; symmetrical 8-window range; ends project under gables with C20 single-storey infill between. All gables are crow-stepped. Entrance has bolection-moulded architrave, armorial panel and gable with ball finial. 5 windows to ground floor centre have 12-pane sashes; ends each have 2 windows with 12-pane sashes under drip course, those to left end with thick glazing bars; 1st floor has 6 windows have dripstones over 12-pane sashes with thick glazing bars, ends have Venetian windows with similar sashes; attic has 3 gabled dormer windows, these and end gables have 6-pane sashes. Several C19 multi-shafted stacks with blue brick enrichment; inner returns have end stacks to gablets. Left end has 3-stage tower, the top stage reconstructed in C19, with ashlar embattled parapet and 2-light double-chamfered mullion windows under dripstones. To left, a C19 service wing with similar details; gable over 4-light transomed ground floor and 3-light 1st floor window and attic light. Right return has lean-to outshut with 2 gablets and 2 gabled dormers. Rear has 2 gables to left and one gable to right of recess with C19 gabled wing with C20 infill to left; C16 windows mostly double-chamfered mullions; left end obscured by ivy, sashed windows; stair wing to left of recess has C16 cross-mullioned windows; right end has two 3-light windows to ground floor, casement replacing sash to 1st floor; all attic windows have 2- or 3-light windows with small-paned casements. C19 kitchen court to right end with embattled parapet to wall. INTERIOR: some Tudor-headed doors to ground floor; segmental-headed recess has C17 panelling; fireplace has Tudor arch with enriched spandrels in architrave with frieze and cornice; open-well staircase has square newels with pendants and ball finials, strapwork panels and moulded handrail; top landing has splat balusters (as at Tamworth Castle q.v.); 1st floor has long room with C16 plaster ceiling with square and oval panels with armorial bearings or birds with grapes and Tudor-arched fireplace has architrave with fluted frieze and cornice. The house was owned by the Comberford family, who entertained Charles I while Prince of Wales. One of Tamworth's oldest and most interesting buildings. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire: London: 1974-: P.279).
Listing NGR: SK2022303960
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386539
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974), 279
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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