St Chad's School House
ST CHAD'S SCHOOL HOUSE, 12, THE CLOSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298428
- Date first listed:
- 14-Feb-1975
- List Entry Name:
- St Chad's School House
- Statutory Address:
- ST CHAD'S SCHOOL HOUSE, 12, THE CLOSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298428
- Date first listed:
- 14-Feb-1975
- List Entry Name:
- St Chad's School House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST CHAD'S SCHOOL HOUSE, 12, THE CLOSE
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:
- ST CHAD'S SCHOOL HOUSE, 12, 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 11443 09765
Details
LICHFIELD
SK1109NW THE CLOSE 1094-1/4/202 (North side) 14/02/75 No.12 St Chad's School House
GV II
House, now school. C18, possibly to earlier foundations, extensively remodelled in early C19 by Joseph Potter Snr of Lichfield, and c1865 when top floor and tower added; later C20 additions. Brick; tile roof with brick stacks. U-plan. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 7-window range, 2 windows to each end wing and one to re-entrant entrance tower. Modillioned brick band over 1st floor, plain bargeboards to half-hipped end wings and to centre, cogged brick cornice to tower. Plain Tudor-headed entrance has panelled door and statue above with canopy. Windows have sills, those to ground floor have rubbed brick flat arches, but right end canted bay with hipped roof and cambered-headed windows; upper floors have cambered-headed windows; all windows have 4-pane sashes, but top floor of tower has 2 narrow sashed windows. Iron finials to wings and to pyramidal tower roof. Left return similar, with added later wings; entrance with 6-flush-panel door; sashed windows and some casement windows and tall stair window, with iron opening lights. INTERIOR mostly of 1865, one room has rich cornice. The building became part of the Cathedral School in 1942. (Victoria History of the County of Stafford: Greenslade M W: Lichfield: Oxford: 1990-: P.64; Drury P: The Capitular Estate of Dean and Chapter of Lichfield Cathedral: 1987-).
Listing NGR: SK1144309765
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 382770
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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), 64
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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