SANDFIELDS HOUSE SANDFIELDS LODGE
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II
List Entry Number: 1298593
Date first listed: 17-Jun-1994
Statutory Address: SANDFIELDS HOUSE, FOSSEWAY LANE
Statutory Address: SANDFIELDS LODGE, FOSSEWAY LANE
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Location
Statutory Address: SANDFIELDS HOUSE, FOSSEWAY LANE
Statutory Address: SANDFIELDS LODGE, FOSSEWAY LANE
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 10956 08037
Details
LICHFIELD
SK10NW FOSSEWAY LANE, Sandfields
1094-1/3/246 (North side)
Sandfields Lodge and Sandfields
House
II
Two houses. C18 with early C19 alterations and additions,
partly incorporated in house of c1860. Brick with ashlar
dressings; tile roofs with brick stacks.
L-plan with later range to left. Georgian Gothick style.
Sandfields Lodge: 2 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range. 2
full-height canted bays with simple coping flank pedimented
bay. Porch has embattled parapet and pointed entrance with
ogival hood mould; flanking pointed windows with Y-tracery
glazing; continuous hood moulds with head stops, the outer
ones damaged. Windows have label moulds over 2-light
small-paned casements with pointed lights, bays have blind
windows to cants. Roof hipped to end, end lateral stacks and
large axial stack. Wing recessed to right has pedimental gable
and blind window over re-entrant block, simpler details to
return.
Sandfields House incorporates gabled wing to left, which has
lean-to conservatory below window with label mould over
2-light casement, lacking glazing bars.
The rest is c1860, double-depth plan. Double-gable roof with
end and cross-axial stacks. Tudor details. 2-window range with
ashlar cross-mullioned windows with label moulds. Return has
wide verges, canted bay window and entrance with 4-centred
head and cornice to ashlar surround. Sandfields Lodge was a
private lunatic asylum from c1818-1856.
(Victoria History of the County of Stafford: Greenslade M W:
Lichfield: Oxford: 1990-: P.106-7).
Listing NGR: SK1095608037
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
Legacy System number: 382648
Legacy System: LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Stafford, (1990), 106-7
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing