8 The Close is a Grade II listed building in the Lichfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1970. House.
8 The Close
- WRENN ID
- winter-flue-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lichfield
- Constituency
- Lichfield MP: Dave Robertson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1970
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- SK 114 097
- Coordinates
- 52.68509, -1.83192
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 8 The Close is a house dating from around 1860, which features a refronting of an earlier structure, possibly from the 18th century. It is built of brick with ashlar dressings and has a double-gabled tile roof with a brick stack, arranged in a right-angle plan.
The house has three storeys and a two-window range. At the base, there is a plaster plinth, and the gables are adorned with enriched bargeboards that have pendants. A brick pilaster is located at the left end. The entrance, positioned at the right end, features a segmental head with roll-moulded reveals and a four-pane door, sheltered by a gabled timber porch that matches the gables. To the left, there is a two-storey canted bay window with stop-chamfered jambs, timber panelling between the floors, a cornice, and casement windows. The other windows have moulded sills and segmental-pointed heads, with ashlar springers and hoods that have carved stops. The first-floor window on the right is tripartite, supported by two colonnettes with foliate capitals. A stack is located to the right of the valley, and there is a cast-iron rainwater head featuring a dragon and a downspout. At the rear, there is a two-storey lean-to outshut with a tall stair window that has small-paned glazing set in a recess.
This building is included for its group value.
Local climate
8 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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