Description

LICHFIELD

SK10NW FOSSEWAY LANE, Sandfields
1094-1/3/246 (North side)
Sandfields Lodge and Sandfields
House

II

Two houses. C18 with early C19 alterations and additions,
partly incorporated in house of c1860. Brick with ashlar
dressings; tile roofs with brick stacks.
L-plan with later range to left. Georgian Gothick style.
Sandfields Lodge: 2 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range. 2
full-height canted bays with simple coping flank pedimented
bay. Porch has embattled parapet and pointed entrance with
ogival hood mould; flanking pointed windows with Y-tracery
glazing; continuous hood moulds with head stops, the outer
ones damaged. Windows have label moulds over 2-light
small-paned casements with pointed lights, bays have blind
windows to cants. Roof hipped to end, end lateral stacks and
large axial stack. Wing recessed to right has pedimental gable
and blind window over re-entrant block, simpler details to
return.
Sandfields House incorporates gabled wing to left, which has
lean-to conservatory below window with label mould over
2-light casement, lacking glazing bars.
The rest is c1860, double-depth plan. Double-gable roof with
end and cross-axial stacks. Tudor details. 2-window range with
ashlar cross-mullioned windows with label moulds. Return has
wide verges, canted bay window and entrance with 4-centred
head and cornice to ashlar surround. Sandfields Lodge was a
private lunatic asylum from c1818-1856.
(Victoria History of the County of Stafford: Greenslade M W:
Lichfield: Oxford: 1990-: P.106-7).

Listing NGR: SK1095608037

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26586067

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Recommended Books

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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)