Description

LICHFIELD

SK1109SE ST JOHN STREET
1094-1/8/160 (South West side)
05/02/52 No.28
St John's Preparatory School and
attached garden wall

GV II*

House, now school. Mid to late C18 with refronting c1820.
Stuccoed brick with ashlar dressings; parapeted roof, part at
least tile.
Double-depth plan with lower side wing and rear wing. Greek
revival style.
2 storeys; 4-window range forming symmetrical composition with
extra window to left end, which breaks back, and lower
projecting wing with hipped roof. Top cornice and panelled
parapet with cornice and blocking course.
Entrance has eared architrave and overlight with margin lights
to 4-panel door, nowy-headed lock plate has inverted-T slot.
Windows to ground floor have architraves, aprons with incised
lines, and 4:8:4-pane tripartite sashes with margin lights;
windows to 1st floor have architraves, friezes and pediments
to 12-pane sashes; 2nd floor has windows with sills and 6-pane
sashes. 4-bay colonnade to ground floor has columns modelled
on those of the Tower of the Winds, Athens, 3 pairs and single
to ends, frieze with wreaths over columns and cornice with
blocking course. Wing has 1st floor sill band and 2-light
small-paned casement; stucco gate piers with caps and paired
plank doors.
Rear has single-storey service range with segmental-headed
windows and entrance and windows, one with 4-light transomed
pegged casement; to left a shallow full-height wing with
canted bay window, to right a large 12-light wooden-mullioned
window in big blocked round-headed opening with glazed
lean-to.
INTERIOR: windows have shutters; hall has encaustic tiles and
cornice; room to left has rich cornice and ceiling rose, black
fireplace with Tuscan columns and C19 cast iron grate with
coloured tiles; room to right has cornice; open-well stair to
rear left has cut string, turned balusters, a cluster of 4 to
foot, moulded nosing to treads; landing has door with
egg-and-dart moulding to panels.
C18 garden wall extends to rear from right return.

Listing NGR: SK1171309260

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17557771

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