St Chad'S School House

LICHFIELD

SK1109NW THE CLOSE 1094-1/4/202 (North side) 14/02/75 No.12 St Chad's School House

GV II

House, now school. C18, possibly to earlier foundations, extensively remodelled in early C19 by Joseph Potter Snr of Lichfield, and c1865 when top floor and tower added; later C20 additions. Brick; tile roof with brick stacks. U-plan. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 7-window range, 2 windows to each end wing and one to re-entrant entrance tower. Modillioned brick band over 1st floor, plain bargeboards to half-hipped end wings and to centre, cogged brick cornice to tower. Plain Tudor-headed entrance has panelled door and statue above with canopy. Windows have sills, those to ground floor have rubbed brick flat arches, but right end canted bay with hipped roof and cambered-headed windows; upper floors have cambered-headed windows; all windows have 4-pane sashes, but top floor of tower has 2 narrow sashed windows. Iron finials to wings and to pyramidal tower roof. Left return similar, with added later wings; entrance with 6-flush-panel door; sashed windows and some casement windows and tall stair window, with iron opening lights. INTERIOR mostly of 1865, one room has rich cornice. The building became part of the Cathedral School in 1942. (Victoria History of the County of Stafford: Greenslade M W: Lichfield: Oxford: 1990-: P.64; Drury P: The Capitular Estate of Dean and Chapter of Lichfield Cathedral: 1987-).

Listing NGR: SK1144309765