Description

LICHFIELD

SK1109SE BIRD STREET
1094-1/8/27 (North East side)
05/02/52 Nos.20, 20A AND 22
Ruskins (No.22)
(Formerly Listed as:
BIRD STREET
(North East side)
No.20)
(Formerly Listed as:
BIRD STREET
(North East side)
No.20A)
(Formerly Listed as:
BIRD STREET
(North East side)
No.22)

GV II

Shop, now restaurant and offices. c1800 with remaining earlier
structure. Brick with ashlar dressings; tile roof with brick
end stack. L-plan. Georgian style. 3 storeys; symmetrical
3-window range. 1st floor sill band and top cornice. Early C19
shop front has panelled pilaster strips and entablature over
recessed central entrance with 6-fielded-panel door and return
entrances and bowed plate glass windows, end bow windows with
plate glass. Upper windows have rubbed brick flat arches,
those to 1st floor over 24-pane sashes, those to 2nd floor
with sills and 16-pane sashes. Large wrought-iron lamp
bracket. Rear has long gabled wing and shorter, higher,
plastered wing. INTERIOR noted as having timber-framing.

Listing NGR: SK1157209498

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26482571

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