Quarry Lodge
QUARRY LODGE, TAMWORTH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218370
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Quarry Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- QUARRY LODGE, TAMWORTH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218370
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Quarry Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- QUARRY LODGE, TAMWORTH ROAD
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:
- QUARRY LODGE, TAMWORTH ROAD
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 12644 08356
Details
LICHFIELD
SK10NW TAMWORTH ROAD 1094-1/3/178 (North side) Quarry Lodge
II
House, now 5 flats. Dated 1825, with alterations and additions of 1840s. Stucco; tile roofs with stucco stacks. Irregular plan. Picturesque Gothick style. 2 storeys; 2 gables, single-storey wing projects to right, attached octagonal tower to left. Embattled parapets and coped gables. Gable to left has embattled coping and flanking octagonal turrets with slits and string courses; 2-storey canted bay window with 1:3:1 double-chamfered-mullioned-and-transomed lights, cornice to each window. Gable to right has finial; canted bay to ground floor has 1:2:1-light window as before, later 1st floor canted bay window has stop-chamfered openings. Wing to right has hipped roof and canted bay window with hipped roof and 1:3:1-light transomed casements. Tower has string courses and single-chamfered lights above and below double-chamfered-mullioned window of 2 trefoil-headed lights with label; connecting wall has cross-slit. Right return has embattled parapet to wing and 2-storey, 2-window, rear wing; single-storey wing with embattled parapet to right end. Wide eaves. Segmental-headed entrance has porch with panelled angle buttresses, cornice and brattished parapet, overlight and canopy to half-glazed door. Windows have C20 casements with triangular-headed lights. End stacks. Rear has dated escutcheon with letters: FFSR to gable. Varied gabled wings, one single-chamfered light with 4-centred head has angel corbel above, return gableted slit and some original windows. Originally known as Lower Borrowcop Villa, it was called Freeford Villa in the 1850s and became Quarry Lodge by 1861. An interesting example of Picturesque design. (Victoria History of the County of Stafford: Greenslade M W: Lichfield: Oxford: 1990-: P.25).
Listing NGR: SK1264408356
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 382745
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Stafford, (1990), 25
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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