Description

SK1109NW
1094-1/4/198

LICHFIELD
THE CLOSE (west side)
No. 8

06/03/70

GV
II
House. c1860 refronting of earlier, possibly C18 house. Brick with ashlar dressings; double-gabled tile roof with brick stack. Right-angle plan.

Three storeys; two window range. Plaster plinth; gables with enriched bargeboards with pendants; brick pilaster to left end. Segmental-headed entrance to right end has roll-moulded reveals and four-pane door, gabled timber porch with gable as above. Two storey canted bay window to left has stop-chamfered jambs, timber panelling between floors and cornice, casements; other windows have moulded sills and segmental-pointed heads with ashlar springers and hoods with carved stops, that to first floor right is tripartite with two colonnettes with foliate capitals. Stack to right of valley. Cast-iron rainwater head has dragon and downspout. Rear has two storey lean-to outshut with tall stair window with small-paned glazing in recess.

Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SK1145809722

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26489481

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Recommended Books

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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey