STOWE GATE HOUSE

STOWE GATE HOUSE, 37 AND 39, LOMBARD STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1217810
Date first listed:: 14-Feb-1975
List Entry Name:: STOWE GATE HOUSE
Statutory Address:: STOWE GATE HOUSE, 37 AND 39, LOMBARD STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1217810
Date first listed:: 14-Feb-1975
Date of most recent amendment:: 16-Jun-1994
List Entry Name:: STOWE GATE HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: STOWE GATE HOUSE, 37 AND 39, LOMBARD STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: STOWE GATE HOUSE, 37 AND 39, LOMBARD STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Staffordshire
District:: Lichfield (District Authority)
Parish:: Lichfield
National Grid Reference:: SK 11995 09752

Details

LICHFIELD

SK1109NE LOMBARD STREET 1094-1/5/116 (North West side) 14/02/75 Nos.37 AND 39 Stowe Gate House (Formerly Listed as: LOMBARD STREET (North West side) Nos.35-39 (Odd))

GV II

Two houses, part now office. c1760. Brick with ashlar dressings; hipped tile and slate roof with brick end stacks. Georgian style. 3 storeys; almost symmetrical 5-window range. Ashlar plinth, sill band to each floor, top cornice and stone-coped brick parapet. Central entrance has doorcase with panelled pilaster strips, consoled entablature blocks and pediment, overlight to 6-fielded-panel door; entrance to left end has doorcase with incised pilasters, frieze with rosettes and cornice, blind overlight to 4-fielded-panel door; entrance to right end has doorcase with panelled pilaster strips, frieze and pediment, overlight to 6-fielded-panel door. Windows have rubbed brick flat arches over 12-pane horned sashes, but 2nd floor windows have 9-pane horned sashes; central windows have architraves. C19 shop window to left of centre has consoled cornice and 3-light fixed glazing. Right return has cornice and projecting stack; rear has 2 wings, one hipped 2-storey wing with end tripartite sash over canted single-storey projection, return has narrow window with pegged frame; higher gabled wing to right has large 1st floor casement to return. Plaque to front records the Stowe Gate, built for Bishop de Clinton, which stood nearby from the early C12 until the late C18.

Listing NGR: SK1199509752

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Legacy System number:: 382673
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.