Pool House and Attached Former Stable Block is a Grade II listed building in the Lichfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1952. House, stable block. 6 related planning applications.

Pool House and Attached Former Stable Block

WRENN ID
seventh-bonework-grove
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lichfield
Constituency
Lichfield MP: Dave Robertson (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 February 1952
Type
House, stable block
Address
Pool House and Attached Former Stable Block, 30, Dam Street, WS13 6AA
OS grid reference
SK 116 097
Coordinates
52.68492, -1.8285
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Pool House and attached former stable block, now a veterinary surgery and hospital, dates from the mid-18th century and has undergone 20th-century alterations to the stable. The building is constructed of brick with ashlar dressings and features a hipped tile roof with brick return lateral stacks. It has a double-depth plan and is designed in a Georgian style, standing three storeys tall with a four-window range. The exterior includes a plinth, ground and first-floor sill bands, and a top cornice.

The round-headed entrance, located to the left of the centre, features a doorcase with pilasters, an entablature, and a pediment, along with an early fanlight that has thick wooden glazing bars, which is a common style in Lichfield, above a six-panel door. The windows are adorned with rubbed brick flat arches, with 12-pane sashes on the ground floor, plate glass sashes on the first floor, and six-pane sashes with sills on the second floor. The left return has an entrance with a six-fielded-panel door and a round-headed stair window with a sash. The rear of the building includes a hipped wing and various two-storey and single-storey flat-roofed additions.

Inside, the windows are fitted with shutters, and the rooms feature cornices. One room has a large segmental-headed fireplace. The stair, located to the left of centre, has a cut string with column-on-vase balusters that cluster at the foot, and a moulded ramped handrail. The stable block has a 20th-century connection to the house and a 20th-century lean-to outshut. It features a modillioned brick cornice and a hipped tile roof, with the first floor having a blocked segmental-headed opening and a boarded pitching hole. The left return includes a segmental-headed pitching hole and a lower rear addition. This building is a notable example of Georgian architecture in Lichfield. The stable block was listed on March 6, 1970.

Local climate

Pool House and Attached Former Stable Block 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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