Description

LICHFIELD

SK1109NE THE CLOSE
1094-1/4/203 (North side)
05/02/52 Nos.13 AND 14
and attached low wall, gate piers
and overthrow

GV II

House, No.14 now office, library and flats. Probably c1527,
refronted probably early to mid C18 and with wing of
1772-1800, early C19 entrance hall to No.14.
Brick with ashlar dressings and some internal timber-frame;
double-span tile roof with hips to bays and wing, and brick
stacks.
Former hall and cross wing now incorporated in symmetrically
planned house, with projecting later wing to right. Georgian
style.
2 storeys; symmetrical 7-window range: full-height canted bays
have 3 windows to each floor. Sill bands and top cornice and
stone-coped brick parapet.
Entrance has doorcase with pilasters with fluted capitals,
entablature blocks, frieze and modillioned cornice, architrave
to 6-fielded-panel door, 2 glazed. Windows have rubbed brick
flat arches, over 12-pane sashes to left and 4-pane sashes to
right of ground floor; 1st floor has 12-pane sashes.
Cross-axial stack to rear. C18 rainwater head and fire mark in
form of sun. Wing has sill bands and cornice to canted front,
returns have modillioned brick cornices. Windows have rubbed
brick flat arches over 4-pane horned sashes to front; left
return has 12-pane sash to each floor; right return has
entrance with architrave, consoled pediment and 6-panel door;
segmental-headed windows, one with sill, including 3-light
casement with iron opening casement, late C19 bay window and
1st floor 12-pane sash with thick glazing bars, similar window
to rear. Rear has 3 gables and C20 additions.
INTERIOR: No.13 recorded as having remains of C16 structure:
one bay of hall with cambered tie beams to queen strut trusses
and pitched ceiling with spine beam and closely-spaced joists,
other bays survive in part; framing of cross wing remains to
left end; interior features of late C18 including window
shutters.
No.14 has vaulted brick cellars, including parts with groin
vaulting, cellar to front with brick bins, one to rear
retaining coppers and stone bowl; open well staircase with cut
string, stick balusters, turned newel to foot and ramped
handrail; round-headed doorway to lobby with husk moulding to
groined vault leading to front room, which has dentilled
cornice and fireplace with Ionic pilasters and fluting; attic
has exposed purlins, roof to front with king post trusses with
double raking struts.
Low stone-coped brick wall attached to right of No.13 extends
accross frontage, with ashlar gate piers and iron overthrow
with lantern.
No.13 was a separate house from c1826 or earlier and has
housed the Dean Savage Library from 1924 and the Dean and
Chapter office from 1975.
(Victoria History of the County of Stafford: Greenslade M W:
Lichfield: Oxford: 1990-: P.64-5; Drury P: The Capitular
Estate of Dean and Chapter of Lichfield Cathedral: 1987-).

Listing NGR: SK1145809782

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26513180

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
• 
  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
• 
  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
• 
  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)