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

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