Description

SK1109SE
1094-1/8/23
14/02/75

LICHFIELD
BIRD STREET
(North East side)
No.10
(Formerly Listed as:
BIRD STREET
(North East side)
Nos.8 AND 10)

GV
II

Includes: Nos.1 AND 1A MARKET STREET.
Two shops and office. c1810. Brick with ashlar dressing; tile
roof. L-plan. Georgian style. 3 storeys; 4-window range. Boxed
eaves; ashlar quoins over chamfered ashlar angle to right end.
Late C19 shop front to No.1, with panelled pilasters, rich
brackets to fascia and C20 entrance and glazing; No.10 has
late C20 shop front. Upper windows have sills, and rubbed
brick flat arches, over plate glass horned sashes to 1st
floor, 6-pane horned sashes to 2nd floor; roof has 2 hipped
skylights. 2 axial stacks. Right return 4-window range has
modillioned brick cornice to right of rebuilt gable; entrance
with architrave and bracketed cornice, overlight with
decorative glazing bars to 6-fielded-panel door, between C20
shop fronts; blocked 1st floor window to left end. No.1
originally had bust of Dr Johnson, now removed (1990).

Listing NGR: SK1161109448

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26504055

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
• 
  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
• 
  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)