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Latitude: 52.6855 / 52°41'7"N
Longitude: -1.8321 / 1°49'55"W
OS Eastings: 411443
OS Northings: 309765
OS Grid: SK114097
Mapcode National: GBR 3C9.RKS
Mapcode Global: WHCGN.TRQM
Plus Code: 9C4WM5P9+54
Entry Name: St Chad's School House
Listing Date: 14 February 1975
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1298428
English Heritage Legacy ID: 382770
ID on this website: 101298428
Location: Lichfield, Staffordshire, WS13
County: Staffordshire
District: Lichfield
Civil Parish: Lichfield
Built-Up Area: Lichfield
Traditional County: Staffordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Staffordshire
Tagged with: House
LICHFIELD
SK1109NW THE CLOSE
1094-1/4/202 (North side)
14/02/75 No.12
St Chad's School House
GV II
House, now school. C18, possibly to earlier foundations,
extensively remodelled in early C19 by Joseph Potter Snr of
Lichfield, and c1865 when top floor and tower added; later C20
additions. Brick; tile roof with brick stacks. U-plan.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 7-window range, 2 windows to each end
wing and one to re-entrant entrance tower. Modillioned brick
band over 1st floor, plain bargeboards to half-hipped end
wings and to centre, cogged brick cornice to tower. Plain
Tudor-headed entrance has panelled door and statue above with
canopy. Windows have sills, those to ground floor have rubbed
brick flat arches, but right end canted bay with hipped roof
and cambered-headed windows; upper floors have cambered-headed
windows; all windows have 4-pane sashes, but top floor of
tower has 2 narrow sashed windows. Iron finials to wings and
to pyramidal tower roof. Left return similar, with added later
wings; entrance with 6-flush-panel door; sashed windows and
some casement windows and tall stair window, with iron opening
lights.
INTERIOR mostly of 1865, one room has rich cornice. The
building became part of the Cathedral School in 1942.
(Victoria History of the County of Stafford: Greenslade M W:
Lichfield: Oxford: 1990-: P.64; Drury P: The Capitular Estate
of Dean and Chapter of Lichfield Cathedral: 1987-).
Listing NGR: SK1144309765
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