Description

LICHFIELD

SK1109NE TAMWORTH STREET
1094-1/5/179 (North side)
14/02/75 Nos.1, 3 AND 5
(Formerly Listed as:
TAMWORTH STREET
(North side)
Nos.3 AND 5)

GV II

Offices. c1750 and c1850. Brick with ashlar and stucco
dressings; hipped tile roof and slate roof, hipped to angle,
to C19 range.
Double-depth plan with C19 range (No.1) to corner of Conduit
Street to left. Georgian style.
No.3 of 3 storeys; 4-window range. Plaster platt band over 1st
floor, and top cornice. C20 traditional style shop front to
left continued round C19 range.
Entrance to right of centre has architrave and overlight to
6-panel door; similar entrance to right end has rubbed brick
flat arch with key above, probably originally to window.
Windows to 1st and 2nd floors have sills, those to 1st floor
bracketed, and rubbed brick flat arches with keys over 4-pane
sashes to 1st floor, 6-pane sashes to 2nd floor.
No.1 of 3 storeys; recessed curved angle with flanking
windows. Sill bands to upper floors and top frieze and
modillioned cornice, central key with satyr mask. Shop front
has entrance to corner.
1st floor has tripartite windows with pilasters, frieze and
cornice with 2:4:2-light sashes flanking similar curved window
with 4-pane sash; 2nd floor has windows of 2 round-headed
lights in ashlar surrounds with brattishing; curved window to
corner narrower. End stack and stack to rear gable have
enriched chimney pots.
INTERIOR: No.3 has open-well stair to rear right with cut
string, scrolled Rococo tread ends, turned balusters, panelled
newels with moulded bases and ramped handrail; 1st floor
window shutters; room to left has richly moulded cornice taken
round beam.

Listing NGR: SK1183409572

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26513013

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