COUNCIL HOUSE

COUNCIL HOUSE, LICHFIELD STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1343029
Date first listed:: 31-Jul-1986
List Entry Name:: COUNCIL HOUSE
Statutory Address:: COUNCIL HOUSE, LICHFIELD STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1343029
Date first listed:: 31-Jul-1986
List Entry Name:: COUNCIL HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: COUNCIL HOUSE, LICHFIELD STREET

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:: COUNCIL HOUSE, LICHFIELD STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Walsall (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SP 01486 98658

Details

WALSALL MB LICHFIELD STREET (west side) SP 0198 NW 13/66 Council House GV II Town hall. 1902-5 by JS Gibson. Sandstone ashlar with tile roof. Baroque style. Facade symmetrical, with outer bays projecting and with five recessed bays on each side of centrepiece. Three storeys. Windows have metal casements with glazing bars. Ground floor of channelled rustica- tion, with round-headed windows which have projecting keystones. The recessed bays of the upper storeys are divided by giant engaged Composite columns. The second floor windows each have a mullion and transom. Below each is a carved figure. Both outer bays have a second floor window with round head and keystone which breaks into an open pediment surmounted by carved figures. The central doorway has a round head within carved stone open pediment and Ionic columns with reversed volutes. Above is a seated female figure of Justice, breaking through a segmental pediment which is supported by caryatids. Set back to the right is a tower with quoin strips at the corners. On each side is an opening with balcony, below a segmental pediment. Each has two Tuscan columns and has a smaller central archway with pediment and round head, which appears to be freestanding. The upper stage is a stone lantern with round-headed openings and corner figures. Adjoins Town Hall (qv), listed under Leicester Street.

Listing NGR: SP0148698658

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Legacy System number:: 219109
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.