32, Bore Street

SK1109SE 1094-1/8/58 05/02/52

LICHFIELD BORE STREET (South East side) No.32 (Formerly Listed as: BORE STREET Lichfield House (Tudor Cafe))

GV II*

House, now cafe. Dated 1510 but probably late C16 with C18 alterations and C20 connecting block. Timber-frame with brick rear range and wing; tile roofs with enriched cresting and brick stacks. 3 storeys; 3-window range. Jettied 1st and 2nd floors and 3 gables; bracketed upper jetty and enriched finials and end pendants to gables. Entrance to left of centre has moulded posts to jetty and small-paned and fielded-panel half-glazed door; passageway to Tudor Row to left end. Ground floor has 2 canted oriels, that to left end has 4-pane sash, that to right end has 1:4:1 fixed lights with leaded glazing above transom, window to right of entrance has plate glass and leaded glazing above transom; 1st floor has 3-light transomed windows with upper leaded glazing; 2nd floor has 2-light casements with moulded frames. Large brick stack. Timber-framing on sole plate, close studding to ground floor, herring bone bracing to 1st floor and curved cusped braces below 2nd floor windows and to gables. 2 enriched C19 rainwater heads. Rear has brick platt pands and modillioned brick cornices, segmental-headed windows, some with pegged cross-casements. Rear wing, attached by C20 block, has brick cornice and varied casement windows; 5-window range has two 3-light pegged casements and 3 blind windows, and 2-light pegged casements to 2nd floor; projecting rear block has varied fenestration and C20 addition to end. INTERIOR: Chamfered beams and joists; ground floor has C17 and early C18 panelling; open-well stair has turned balusters, square newels and moulded handrail, 2 lions to landing; rear wing has chamfered beams and joists; ?former gable end has timber-framing with 2 jetties. A good well preserved C16 building; a local landmark.

Listing NGR: SK1176409479