St John'S Preparatory School And Attached Garden Wall

LICHFIELD

SK1109SE ST JOHN STREET 1094-1/8/160 (South West side) 05/02/52 No.28 St John's Preparatory School and attached garden wall

GV II*

House, now school. Mid to late C18 with refronting c1820. Stuccoed brick with ashlar dressings; parapeted roof, part at least tile. Double-depth plan with lower side wing and rear wing. Greek revival style. 2 storeys; 4-window range forming symmetrical composition with extra window to left end, which breaks back, and lower projecting wing with hipped roof. Top cornice and panelled parapet with cornice and blocking course. Entrance has eared architrave and overlight with margin lights to 4-panel door, nowy-headed lock plate has inverted-T slot. Windows to ground floor have architraves, aprons with incised lines, and 4:8:4-pane tripartite sashes with margin lights; windows to 1st floor have architraves, friezes and pediments to 12-pane sashes; 2nd floor has windows with sills and 6-pane sashes. 4-bay colonnade to ground floor has columns modelled on those of the Tower of the Winds, Athens, 3 pairs and single to ends, frieze with wreaths over columns and cornice with blocking course. Wing has 1st floor sill band and 2-light small-paned casement; stucco gate piers with caps and paired plank doors. Rear has single-storey service range with segmental-headed windows and entrance and windows, one with 4-light transomed pegged casement; to left a shallow full-height wing with canted bay window, to right a large 12-light wooden-mullioned window in big blocked round-headed opening with glazed lean-to. INTERIOR: windows have shutters; hall has encaustic tiles and cornice; room to left has rich cornice and ceiling rose, black fireplace with Tuscan columns and C19 cast iron grate with coloured tiles; room to right has cornice; open-well stair to rear left has cut string, turned balusters, a cluster of 4 to foot, moulded nosing to treads; landing has door with egg-and-dart moulding to panels. C18 garden wall extends to rear from right return.

Listing NGR: SK1171309260