Pool House And Attached Former Stable Block

LICHFIELD

SK1109NE DAM STREET 1094-1/5/93 (North East side) 05/02/52 No.30 Pool House and attached former stable block (Formerly Listed as: (North East side) Pool House) (Formerly Listed as: DAM STREET Stable block to the NE of No.30)

GV II

House and stable, now veterinary surgery and hospital. Mid C18, with C20 alterations to stable. Brick with ashlar dressings; hipped tile roof with brick return lateral stacks. Double-depth plan. Georgian style. 3 storeys; 4-window range. Plinth, ground and 1st floor sill bands and top cornice. Round-headed entrance to left of centre has doorcase with pilasters, entablature and pediment, early fanlight with thick wooden glazing bars, a type common in Lichfield, over 6-panel door. Windows have rubbed brick flat arches, over 12-pane sashes to ground floor, plate glass sashes to 1st floor, over 6-pane sashes with sills to 2nd floor. Left return has entrance with 6-fielded-panel door and round-headed stair window with sash; rear has hipped wing and various 2-storey and single-storey flat-roofed additions. INTERIOR: windows have shutters; rooms have cornices, one room has big segmental-headed fireplace; stair to left of centre has cut string, column-on-vase balusters, clustered to foot, and moulded ramped handrail. Stable bock has C20 connection to house and C20 lean-to outshut; modillioned brick cornice and hipped tile roof; 1st floor has blocked segmental-headed opening and boarded pitching hole. Left return has segmental-headed pitching hole; lower rear addition. A good example of Lichfield's Georgian architecture. The stable block was listed on 6.3.70.

Listing NGR: SK1169009704