Davidson House And Attached Railings

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LICHFIELD UPPER ST JOHN STREET (East side) No.67 Davidson House and attached railings

(Formerly Listed as: UPPER ST JOHN STREET No.67 South Staffordshire Regimental Museum)

05/02/52

GV II

House, now office. c1810. Brick with ashlar dressings; hipped slate roof with two large brick stacks. Gable facing, front to left.

Three storeys; three-window range. Ashlar plinth, sill bands and top modillioned cornice with blocking course.

Central entrance with architrave and overlight to paired three-panel doors, in altered porch with slender Tuscan column to right; bay window to left has cornice. Windows have pilasters, friezes and cornices; tripartite bay window with colonnettes and 8:12:8-pane sashes; similar window to right has brick piers and central open pediment; two similar tripartite windows to first floor have colonnettes and central open pediments, flanking window with open pediment over 12-pane sash; second floor windows have architraves to six-pane sashes.

Terrace to right end has steps to street level and plain iron railings to both. Street facade has similar details; high plinth, tripartite windows to ground and first floors, that to ground floor has brick piers.

Rear has two-storey gabled service range. Right return has cogged brick cornice and varied fenestration.

INTERIOR: windows have shutters.

Thomas Johnson, a noted Lichfield architect, lived and worked here from before 1834 until his death in 1853. From 1938 to 1963 the building housed the South Staffordshire Regimental Museum, named after Brigadier General C.S.Davidson.

(Victoria History of the County of Stafford: Greenslade M W: Lichfield: Oxford: 1990-: P.131, 169).

Listing NGR: SK1187309014