Marlborough House
MARLBOROUGH HOUSE, 26, ST JOHN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218135
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Marlborough House
- Statutory Address:
- MARLBOROUGH HOUSE, 26, ST JOHN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218135
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Marlborough House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MARLBOROUGH HOUSE, 26, ST JOHN 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:
- MARLBOROUGH HOUSE, 26, ST JOHN 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 11697 09279
Details
LICHFIELD
SK1109SE ST JOHN STREET 1094-1/8/158 (South West side) 05/02/52 No.26 Marlborough House
GV II
House, now office. c1740 with late C18 rear wing. Brick with plaster dressings; hipped tile roofs with brick stacks. Central staircase plan. Early Georgian style. 2 storeys with attic; symmetrical 5-window range. Brick plinth and top cornice. Entrance has porch with paired Tuscan columns, frieze, cornice and blocking course; architrave and overlight to 6-panel door; steps with handrails. Segmental-headed casement openings with grilles; segmental-headed windows have sills and plaster arches with keys over 12-pane sashes, those to 1st floor segmental-headed, central 1st floor window has apron and eared and shouldered architrave with key; 5 hipped dormers with lead sides and 6-pane sashes. Late C20 addition in sympathetic style to left. Right return has hipped dormer. Late C18 wing has canted end and cornice, lateral stack to front; return has segmental-headed windows with 12-pane sashes and one 4:12:4-pane sash to ground floor, and lateral stack; rear has similar windows; gabled wing to right has coped gable with kneelers; C20 single-storey infill block. INTERIOR: open-well stair has cut string, column-on-vase balusters, turned newels, ramped handrail and fielded-panelled dado.
Listing NGR: SK1169709279
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 382722
- 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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