Numbers 15 Bird Street and 2 Sandford Street
15, BIRD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209022
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 15 Bird Street and 2 Sandford Street
- Statutory Address:
- 15, BIRD STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/01367/16
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209022
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 15 Bird Street and 2 Sandford Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 15, BIRD STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- 2, SANDFORD 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:
- 15, BIRD STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 2, SANDFORD 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:
- SK1157709459
Details
SK1109SE
1094-1/8/257
05/02/52
LICHFIELD
BIRD STREET
(South West side)
No.15
GV
II
Includes: No.2 SANDFORD STREET.
Commercial premises. c1500 core, extended C17 or early C18,
refronted c1800; C20 alterations.
Timber-framed origin, refronted in red brick, the rear wing of
brick now partly rendered; tiled roofs. Corner block of 2
storeys and attic: 4 bays to Bird Street and 4 to Sandford
Street on left return; altered 2-storey wing faces Sandford
Street.
Corner block: recessed 1960's shop front. 1st floor:
projecting sills to 6-pane sashes under rubbed-brick flat
arches; cornice beneath parapet with ashlar copings. Roof is
hipped to left and has tall ridge stack. Left return: ashlar
plinth; 6-panel door to left has 6-pane overlight and
rubbed-brick flat arch; 2 blind windows on right with
projecting sills and same arches. 1st floor as front. Wing is
much altered: double doors on left, C20 casements, dentilled
eaves, ridge stack. The east gable has a partially-exposed
principal-rafter truss.
INTERIOR: remodelled. Attic space parallel to Sandford Street
has altered 3-bay roof structure with substantial elements of
c1500. Moulded, arch-braced truss with its NW post extending
down to 1st floor: carpenters' marks, Y-struts above the
collar, curved wind brace to NW purlin; the SE principal
rafter has been cut away. 2 other queen-strut trusses to SW
have grooves or mortices for infill below and above their
cambered and chamfered tie beams; the SW end truss is
virtually complete whilst the other has lost its apex. Various
purlins, rafters and another wind brace survive. A framed
partition to NW side has a C17 or early C18 boarded oak door -
attic floorboards are of similar date.
The main truss will have spanned a tall 1st floor chamber
perhaps above a shop with domestic accommodation to rear.
Listing NGR: SK1157709459
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 382571
- 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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