Westgate House and Attached Outbuildings, Front Walls, Gates and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Lichfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1952. House. 3 related planning applications.
Westgate House and Attached Outbuildings, Front Walls, Gates and Railings
- WRENN ID
- muted-floor-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lichfield
- Constituency
- Lichfield MP: Dave Robertson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Westgate House and Attached Outbuildings, Front Walls, Gates and Railings, Beacon Street, WS13 7AA
- OS grid reference
- SK 113 096
- Coordinates
- 52.68456, -1.83289
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Westgate House, built around 1750, is a Georgian-style house with attached outbuildings, front walls, gates, and railings located on Beacon Street in Lichfield. The house features a stucco exterior with brick rear wings and a graduated slate roof, complemented by stucco end stacks and tile on the rear. It has a double-depth plan with two rear wings and is three storeys tall, presenting a symmetrical five-window façade. The top cornice and parapet are accentuated by coped gables.
The round-headed entrance is framed by an aedicule with fluted Doric antae and a triglyph entablature, topped with a fanlight that has radial glazing bars above paired doors with three fielded panels. The windows throughout the house have sills, with 12-pane sashes on the lower floors and 6-pane sashes on the second floor. The left side of the house features segmental-headed windows on the first floor with 9-pane sashes, a cogged cornice, and a cross-axial stack.
The attached outbuilding has coped gables and various openings. At the rear, there is a projecting gabled wing to the right, an entrance in a trellis porch, and a shallow bay with a tripartite sash window to the left, along with a round-headed stair window. The brick walls connecting the house to the low ashlar front walls are topped with iron railings, and there are enriched wrought-iron gate piers, paired gates, and an overthrow. The railings and gates were listed separately on March 6, 1970.
Local climate
Westgate House and Attached Outbuildings, Front Walls, Gates and Railings 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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