1, The Close is a Grade II listed building in the Lichfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1952. House. 1 related planning application.
1, The Close
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-sill-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lichfield
- Constituency
- Lichfield MP: Dave Robertson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- 1, The Close, WS13 7LF
- OS grid reference
- SK 114 096
- Coordinates
- 52.6848, -1.8326
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house located at 1 The Close, built around 1835. It is constructed of brick with ashlar dressings and features a tiled roof with coped gables and brick end stacks, designed in the Jacobean style. The house has two storeys and presents a symmetrical three-window facade. It has an offset plinth, a continuous label mould at the first floor, and a top stone-coped brick parapet with a central coped gable.
The entrance is Tudor-headed, with chamfered reveals and a label mould, leading to a half-glazed door. The windows are double-chamfered-mullioned, featuring label moulds, with three lights on the ground floor and two lights on the first floor. The stacks have diagonal shafts. The gable displays an ashlar shield bearing the arms of the Diocese.
On the left side, there is a projecting stack with flanking first-floor lights beneath the continuation of the label mould from the front. A stone-coped area wall includes a Tudor-headed entrance with a plank door. The rear of the house has plain stone eaves and an attached garage with a hipped roof, along with a plain rear stack.
Local climate
1, The Close receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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