The Mansion House And Attached Wall

STONE

SJ9033 LICHFIELD STREET, Stone 651-1/7/38 (North side) 04/08/71 The Mansion House and attached wall

GV II

House. c1770 with early C19 alterations. Brick with ashlar dressings; tile roof with brick end stacks. Gable facing, front to left; central staircase plan. Georgian style. 3 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range. Top cornice and coped gables with kneelers. Ashlar ground floor has wooden frieze and cornice, round-headed entrance has Doric aedicule with open pediment, fanlight with radial glazing bars over 6-fielded-panel door; flanking French windows have fluted pilasters; upper windows have rusticated wedge lintels, those to 1st floor over 12-pane sashes, those to 2nd floor over 6-pane sashes and with sills. Enriched cast-iron balcony over entire facade. Right return has two 1st floor windows with cast-iron balconies; rear wing of 3 storeys has modillioned brick cornice; re-entrant lean-to porch; varied fenestration: ground floor has 3 segmental-headed windows with wooden frames; 1st floor has small light, 4-pane horned sash and end segmental-headed casement window; 2nd floor has three 3-light casement windows with iron opening casements and leaded glazing, end window with small-paned glazing. End stack to hipped end. Rear C20 entrance and light with two 4-pane sashes to 1st floor. Left return has tall segmental-headed recess with 1st floor window with pegged frame. Interior: open well stair has open string, alternate column-on-vase and barleysugar balusters, turned newels and ramped handrail; some window shutters and 6-panel doors; Minton mosaic tiles. The house was part of the iron works of Rangeley and Dixon, founded c1818, later Rangeley and Diggles, who made mileposts for the Trent and Mersey Canal; closed down, 1829 (cf Milepost). (Bolton J M: Canal Town Stone: Wolverhampton: 1981-: 10 AND 67).

Listing NGR: SJ9050133703