Ardmore Cottage Ardmore House Nether Beacon House

ARDMORE COTTAGE, BEACON STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1208984
Date first listed:
18-Apr-1973
List Entry Name:
Ardmore Cottage Ardmore House Nether Beacon House
Statutory Address:
ARDMORE COTTAGE, BEACON STREET

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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1208984
Date first listed:
18-Apr-1973
List Entry Name:
Ardmore Cottage Ardmore House Nether Beacon House
Statutory Address 1:
ARDMORE COTTAGE, BEACON STREET
Statutory Address 2:
ARDMORE HOUSE, BEACON STREET
Statutory Address 3:
NETHER BEACON HOUSE, BEACON STREET

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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:
ARDMORE COTTAGE, BEACON STREET
Statutory Address:
ARDMORE HOUSE, BEACON STREET
Statutory Address:
NETHER BEACON HOUSE, BEACON STREET

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

County:
Staffordshire
District:
Lichfield (District Authority)
Parish:
Lichfield
National Grid Reference:
SK 11165 10022

Details

LICHFIELD

SK11SW BEACON STREET 1094-1/1/17 (North East side) 18/04/73 Ardmore Cottage, Nether Beacon House and Ardmore House

GV II

House, now 3 houses. Late C17 or early C18 with late C18 addition and later alterations. Timber-frame with brick infill and brick; tile roofs with brick stacks. PLAN: double-depth plan with later range to rear. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range with C19 single-storey wings to ends. Hipped roof with 3 gables. Late C19 applied timber-frame to partly plastered stone plinth. Entrances to centre have porches recessed behind Tudor arches and Art Nouveau iron gates, half-glazed doors with leaded glazing and side lights. 3-light projecting windows with cornices, but 2 central 1st floor narrow windows. C20 windows to wings. Left return has exposed square framing and 3 flat-roofed dormers; tall stack. Rear range of 3 storeys, 4-window range, has coped gables and end stacks; modillioned brick cornice. Windows have sills, and rubbed brick flat arches over 12-pane sashes, 9-pane sashes to 2nd floor. Right return to Nether Beacon has C20 additions and entrance to ground floor; left return has small 2-storey rear wing with end stack and return 4:12:4-pane tripartite sash, taller than adjoining front range due to slope of ground. INTERIOR: Nether Beacon House not inspected but probably retains beams, fireplaces etc.

Listing NGR: SK1116510022

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
382562
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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