Description

LICHFIELD

SK10NW TAMWORTH ROAD
1094-1/3/178 (North side)
Quarry Lodge

II

House, now 5 flats. Dated 1825, with alterations and additions
of 1840s. Stucco; tile roofs with stucco stacks. Irregular
plan. Picturesque Gothick style.
2 storeys; 2 gables, single-storey wing projects to right,
attached octagonal tower to left. Embattled parapets and coped
gables. Gable to left has embattled coping and flanking
octagonal turrets with slits and string courses; 2-storey
canted bay window with 1:3:1
double-chamfered-mullioned-and-transomed lights, cornice to
each window. Gable to right has finial; canted bay to ground
floor has 1:2:1-light window as before, later 1st floor canted
bay window has stop-chamfered openings. Wing to right has
hipped roof and canted bay window with hipped roof and
1:3:1-light transomed casements. Tower has string courses and
single-chamfered lights above and below
double-chamfered-mullioned window of 2 trefoil-headed lights
with label; connecting wall has cross-slit.
Right return has embattled parapet to wing and 2-storey,
2-window, rear wing; single-storey wing with embattled parapet
to right end. Wide eaves. Segmental-headed entrance has porch
with panelled angle buttresses, cornice and brattished
parapet, overlight and canopy to half-glazed door. Windows
have C20 casements with triangular-headed lights. End stacks.
Rear has dated escutcheon with letters: FFSR to gable. Varied
gabled wings, one single-chamfered light with 4-centred head
has angel corbel above, return gableted slit and some original
windows.
Originally known as Lower Borrowcop Villa, it was called
Freeford Villa in the 1850s and became Quarry Lodge by 1861.
An interesting example of Picturesque design.
(Victoria History of the County of Stafford: Greenslade M W:
Lichfield: Oxford: 1990-: P.25).

Listing NGR: SK1264408356

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26513008

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  For the Record
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)