Quarry Lodge

LICHFIELD

SK10NW TAMWORTH ROAD 1094-1/3/178 (North side) Quarry Lodge

II

House, now 5 flats. Dated 1825, with alterations and additions of 1840s. Stucco; tile roofs with stucco stacks. Irregular plan. Picturesque Gothick style. 2 storeys; 2 gables, single-storey wing projects to right, attached octagonal tower to left. Embattled parapets and coped gables. Gable to left has embattled coping and flanking octagonal turrets with slits and string courses; 2-storey canted bay window with 1:3:1 double-chamfered-mullioned-and-transomed lights, cornice to each window. Gable to right has finial; canted bay to ground floor has 1:2:1-light window as before, later 1st floor canted bay window has stop-chamfered openings. Wing to right has hipped roof and canted bay window with hipped roof and 1:3:1-light transomed casements. Tower has string courses and single-chamfered lights above and below double-chamfered-mullioned window of 2 trefoil-headed lights with label; connecting wall has cross-slit. Right return has embattled parapet to wing and 2-storey, 2-window, rear wing; single-storey wing with embattled parapet to right end. Wide eaves. Segmental-headed entrance has porch with panelled angle buttresses, cornice and brattished parapet, overlight and canopy to half-glazed door. Windows have C20 casements with triangular-headed lights. End stacks. Rear has dated escutcheon with letters: FFSR to gable. Varied gabled wings, one single-chamfered light with 4-centred head has angel corbel above, return gableted slit and some original windows. Originally known as Lower Borrowcop Villa, it was called Freeford Villa in the 1850s and became Quarry Lodge by 1861. An interesting example of Picturesque design. (Victoria History of the County of Stafford: Greenslade M W: Lichfield: Oxford: 1990-: P.25).

Listing NGR: SK1264408356