9, 9A AND 9B, THE CLOSE

9, 9A AND 9B, THE CLOSE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1218478
Date first listed:
06-Mar-1970
List Entry Name:
9, 9A AND 9B, THE CLOSE
Statutory Address:
9, 9A AND 9B, THE CLOSE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1218478
Date first listed:
06-Mar-1970
Date of most recent amendment:
17-Jun-1994
List Entry Name:
9, 9A AND 9B, THE CLOSE
Statutory Address 1:
9, 9A AND 9B, THE CLOSE

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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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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
9, 9A AND 9B, THE CLOSE

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 11453 09730

Details

LICHFIELD

SK1109NW THE CLOSE 1094-1/4/199 (West side) 06/03/70 Nos.9, 9A AND 9B (Formerly Listed as: THE CLOSE No.9)

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House, part of lower court of Vicars' Close, now flats and shop. Probably C17 remodelled in early to mid C18 with mid C19 top storey and alterations. Brick, the front painted, with ashlar dressings; tile roof with brick stacks. Double-depth plan. 3 storeys; symmetrical 5-window range. Brick platt band over ground floor and moulded brick cornice with 2 coped gables; end brick pilasters. Entrance to each end has doorcase with panelled pilaster strips and bracketed canopy, narrow overlight to half-glazed door. Central C19 two-storey canted bay window has sill bands and top cornice and embattled parapet, segmental-headed windows with plate glass sashes; other windows are segmental headed with sills and plate glass sashes, small casement over bay; slits to gables. Rear has 2 gables and C19 lean-to outshut. (Drury P: The Capitular Estate of Dean and Chapter of Lichfield Cathedral: 1987-).

Listing NGR: SK1145109729

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Legacy System number:
382767
Legacy System:
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Sources

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Drury, P, The Capitular Estate of Dean and Chapter of Lichfield Cathedral, (1987)

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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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