2, 3 AND 4, THE CLOSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1298426
Date first listed:: 05-Feb-1952
List Entry Name:: 2, 3 AND 4, THE CLOSE
Statutory Address:: 2, 3 AND 4, THE CLOSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1298426
Date first listed:: 05-Feb-1952
List Entry Name:: 2, 3 AND 4, THE CLOSE
Statutory Address 1:: 2, 3 AND 4, THE CLOSE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: 2, 3 AND 4, 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 11434 09700

Details

LICHFIELD

SK1109NW THE CLOSE 1094-1/4/194 (West side) 05/02/52 Nos.2, 3 AND 4

GV II

Two houses, one converted into two. c1720. Brick; double-span tile roof with brick stacks. Double-depth plan. Georgian style. 3 storeys and basement; 8-window range forming 2 symmetrical compositions. Brick platt bands and timber top cornice. 2 entrances up opposed steps with plain iron handrails, that to No.3 has doorcase with architrave, frieze and consoled cornice, and 6-fielded-panel door; that to No.4 has doorcase with eared architrave, frieze and pediment, half-glazed door. Varied basement openings; windows have rubbed brick flat arches and 12-pane sashes with moulded frames, No.3 has two 4-pane sashes and two 6-pane sashes to 2nd floor; No.4 has large C19 canted oriel with hipped roof and plate glass sashes to 1st floor right, and horizontally sliding sashes to 2nd floor. Left return has C18 rainwater head with downspout; single-storey wing, front wall to street with segmental-headed entrance to No.2 up steps with plain iron handrail, doorcase with pilasters and bracketed cornice, 6-panel door. Rear elevation has varied fenestration including one ground floor cross-casement; entrance with 2-panel door in pegged frame and C19 trellis porch. Built on the site of medieval buildings of the south court of the Vicars' Close which were destroyed during the Civil War. (Victoria History of the County of Stafford: Greenslade M W: Lichfield: Oxford: 1990-: P.59; Drury P: The Capitular Estate of Dean and Chapter of Lichfield Cathedral: 1987-).

Listing NGR: SK1142509697

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Legacy System number:: 382762
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Sources

Books and journals
Drury, P, The Capitular Estate of Dean and Chapter of Lichfield Cathedral, (1987)
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Stafford, (1990), 59

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.