Wall to Front and Right Return of Garden to Number 20

WALL TO FRONT AND RIGHT RETURN OF GARDEN TO NUMBER 20, ST JOHN STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1298400
Date first listed:
05-Feb-1952
List Entry Name:
Wall to Front and Right Return of Garden to Number 20
Statutory Address:
WALL TO FRONT AND RIGHT RETURN OF GARDEN TO NUMBER 20, ST JOHN STREET
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1298400
Date first listed:
05-Feb-1952
Date of most recent amendment:
17-Jun-1994
List Entry Name:
Wall to Front and Right Return of Garden to Number 20
Statutory Address 1:
WALL TO FRONT AND RIGHT RETURN OF GARDEN TO NUMBER 20, ST JOHN STREET

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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:
WALL TO FRONT AND RIGHT RETURN OF GARDEN TO NUMBER 20, 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 11676 09338

Details

LICHFIELD

SK1109SE ST JOHN STREET 1094-1/8/154 (South West side) 05/02/52 Wall to front and right return of garden to No.20 (Formerly Listed as: ST JOHN'S STREET (South West side) Fragment of Friary Wall abutting No 20 on N side)

GV II

Wall and gate. Late C13 and C18, gate late C19. Dressed stone with repairs and rebuilding in brick; tile roof to gate. Wall is attached to No.20 and curves round angle, ending in gate in gabled portal with gabled roof, pointed arch with tile impost and hood, and tile cornice. The wall is believed to be part of the boundary wall of the Franciscan Friary, founded 1229 and rebuilt 1291, and dissolved in 1538. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire: London: 1974-: P.191).

Listing NGR: SK1167609338

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Legacy System number:
382717
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974), 191

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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