WESTGATE HOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS, FRONT WALLS, GATES AND RAILINGS

WESTGATE HOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS, FRONT WALLS, GATES AND RAILINGS, BEACON STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1298734
Date first listed:: 05-Feb-1952
List Entry Name:: WESTGATE HOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS, FRONT WALLS, GATES AND RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: WESTGATE HOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS, FRONT WALLS, GATES AND RAILINGS, BEACON STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1298734
Date first listed:: 05-Feb-1952
List Entry Name:: WESTGATE HOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS, FRONT WALLS, GATES AND RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: WESTGATE HOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS, FRONT WALLS, GATES AND RAILINGS, BEACON 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:: WESTGATE HOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS, FRONT WALLS, GATES AND RAILINGS, BEACON 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 11393 09663

Details

LICHFIELD

SK1109NW BEACON STREET 1094-1/4/19 (West side) 05/02/52 Westgate House and attached outbuildings, front walls, gates and railings

GV II

House and attached front wall and railings. c1750. Stucco with brick rear wings; graduated slate roof with stucco end stacks, tile to rear. Double-depth plan with 2 rear wings and attached outbuildings. Georgian style. 3 storeys; symmetrical 5-window range. Top cornice and parapet; coped gables. Round-headed entrance has aedicule with fluted Doric antae and triglyph entablature; fanlight with radial glazing bars over paired 3-fielded-panel doors. Windows have sills and 12-pane sashes, 6-pane sashes to 2nd floor. Left return has segmental-headed windows to 1st floor with 9-pane sashes, cogged cornice and cross-axial stack. Attached outbuilding has coped gables and varied openings. Rear has projecting gabled wing to right, entrance in trellis porch and shallow bay with tripartite sash to left; round-headed stair window. Brick walls with ashlar entablatures connect house to low ashlar front walls with iron railings, and enriched wrought-iron gate piers, paired gates and overthrow. Railings and gates were listed on 6.3.70.

Listing NGR: SK1139309663

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Legacy System number:: 382565
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.