Numbers 15 Bird Street And 2 Sandford Street

SK1109SE 1094-1/8/257 05/02/52

LICHFIELD BIRD STREET (South West side) No.15

GV II

Includes: No.2 SANDFORD STREET. Commercial premises. c1500 core, extended C17 or early C18, refronted c1800; C20 alterations. Timber-framed origin, refronted in red brick, the rear wing of brick now partly rendered; tiled roofs. Corner block of 2 storeys and attic: 4 bays to Bird Street and 4 to Sandford Street on left return; altered 2-storey wing faces Sandford Street. Corner block: recessed 1960's shop front. 1st floor: projecting sills to 6-pane sashes under rubbed-brick flat arches; cornice beneath parapet with ashlar copings. Roof is hipped to left and has tall ridge stack. Left return: ashlar plinth; 6-panel door to left has 6-pane overlight and rubbed-brick flat arch; 2 blind windows on right with projecting sills and same arches. 1st floor as front. Wing is much altered: double doors on left, C20 casements, dentilled eaves, ridge stack. The east gable has a partially-exposed principal-rafter truss. INTERIOR: remodelled. Attic space parallel to Sandford Street has altered 3-bay roof structure with substantial elements of c1500. Moulded, arch-braced truss with its NW post extending down to 1st floor: carpenters' marks, Y-struts above the collar, curved wind brace to NW purlin; the SE principal rafter has been cut away. 2 other queen-strut trusses to SW have grooves or mortices for infill below and above their cambered and chamfered tie beams; the SW end truss is virtually complete whilst the other has lost its apex. Various purlins, rafters and another wind brace survive. A framed partition to NW side has a C17 or early C18 boarded oak door - attic floorboards are of similar date. The main truss will have spanned a tall 1st floor chamber perhaps above a shop with domestic accommodation to rear.

Listing NGR: SK1157709459