Description

LICHFIELD

SK1109SE ST JOHN STREET
1094-1/8/158 (South West side)
05/02/52 No.26
Marlborough House

GV II

House, now office. c1740 with late C18 rear wing. Brick with
plaster dressings; hipped tile roofs with brick stacks.
Central staircase plan. Early Georgian style. 2 storeys with
attic; symmetrical 5-window range. Brick plinth and top
cornice. Entrance has porch with paired Tuscan columns,
frieze, cornice and blocking course; architrave and overlight
to 6-panel door; steps with handrails. Segmental-headed
casement openings with grilles; segmental-headed windows have
sills and plaster arches with keys over 12-pane sashes, those
to 1st floor segmental-headed, central 1st floor window has
apron and eared and shouldered architrave with key; 5 hipped
dormers with lead sides and 6-pane sashes. Late C20 addition
in sympathetic style to left. Right return has hipped dormer.
Late C18 wing has canted end and cornice, lateral stack to
front; return has segmental-headed windows with 12-pane sashes
and one 4:12:4-pane sash to ground floor, and lateral stack;
rear has similar windows; gabled wing to right has coped gable
with kneelers; C20 single-storey infill block. INTERIOR:
open-well stair has cut string, column-on-vase balusters,
turned newels, ramped handrail and fielded-panelled dado.

Listing NGR: SK1169709279

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26512794

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Recommended Books

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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (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)