Ruskins is a Grade II listed building in the Lichfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1952. Shop, restaurant, offices.
Ruskins
- WRENN ID
- old-stone-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lichfield
- Constituency
- Lichfield MP: Dave Robertson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1952
- Type
- Shop, restaurant, offices
- Address
- Ruskins, 22, Bird Street, WS13 6PR
- OS grid reference
- SK 115 095
- Coordinates
- 52.68308, -1.83025
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ruskins is a shop that has been converted into a restaurant and offices, dating from around 1800, although it retains some earlier structural elements. The building is constructed of brick with ashlar dressings and features a tiled roof with a brick end stack. It has an L-shaped plan and is designed in the Georgian style, standing three storeys tall with a symmetrical three-window arrangement.
The first floor includes a sill band and a cornice at the top. The early 19th-century shop front is notable for its panelled pilaster strips and an entablature above a recessed central entrance, which features a six-fielded-panel door along with return entrances and bowed plate glass windows. The end bow windows also have plate glass. The upper windows have rubbed brick flat arches; the first-floor windows are 24-pane sashes, while the second-floor windows have sills and are 16-pane sashes. A large wrought-iron lamp bracket is also present. At the rear, there is a long gabled wing and a shorter, higher, plastered wing. The interior is noted for having timber-framing.
Local climate
Ruskins 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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