19, 19a and 19b, The Close is a Grade II listed building in the Lichfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1952. House. 1 related planning application.

19, 19a and 19b, The Close

WRENN ID
haunted-bronze-gorse
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lichfield
Constituency
Lichfield MP: Dave Robertson (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 February 1952
Type
House
Address
19, 19a and 19b, The Close, WS13 7LD
OS grid reference
SK 116 097
Coordinates
52.6853, -1.82968
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

19, 19A and 19B The Close is a house built in 1800, with a later 19th-century addition. It is constructed of brick and features tile and slate roofs with brick stacks. The building has a double-depth plan and is designed in the Georgian style, standing two storeys high with a rear basement and a symmetrical five-window range. It has a top modillioned brick cornice.

The entrance features a doorcase with a consoled cornice and an elliptical fanlight with radial glazing bars above a six-fielded-panel door, along with an iron bracket for a lantern. The entrance at the right end has a rubbed brick flat arch and a six-panel door. The windows have sills and rubbed brick flat arches over twelve-pane sashes. The left return has a segmental-headed window with a tripartite sash consisting of four, twelve, and four panes.

To the left, there is a lower three-storey, three-window range that projects, featuring a slate roof and lateral stacks, along with a re-entrant porch. The rear of the building has a central glazed timber gabled porch on a brick base with return entrances accessed by curved steps. This house was built on the site of Bishop Hackett's late 17th-century house. Nos 19A and 19B were listed on March 6, 1970.

Local climate

19, 19a and 19b, The Close receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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