Heath House

Heath House is a country house built around 1836 by Thomas Johnson of Lichfield for John Burton Phillips, who owned Tean Hall Mills. The house is constructed of chisel dressed ashlar and features steeply pitched slate roofs with verge parapets and steeply pitched copings. It exhibits a Tudor Gothic style and has a large H-plan layout with an attached L-shaped service wing of similar size.

The entrance front is on the side of the H and consists of two tall storeys, which takes the height of three storeys for the rest of the house. The façade is asymmetrical, featuring five windows, primarily 1-, 2-, and 2-light casements with chamfered stone mullions and transoms. The center of the entrance front is highlighted by a tall tower that rises an additional storey, topped with an octagonal pinnacled parapet. Behind this tower is an octagonal stair tower that adds yet another storey. The first floor includes a semicircular oriel above a Tudor arched porte cochere, which has turret pinnacled angles and a balustrade with crestings and mock loop holes.

The drive front is expansive, comprising three storeys and a symmetrical arrangement of windows in a 3:3:3 pattern, featuring 1-light and 2-light windows with projecting gables on the sides. The right side has a three-sided bay window, while the two-storey service wing is attached to the left and is of a similar style.

Inside, the house maintains a consistent Tudor Gothic style, beginning with a low vaulted entrance hall that leads into the stair hall, the largest room in the house, which rises to a lantern in the roof. The staircase divides into two flights against the rear wall and ascends to an arcaded gallery at the first floor. Most of the interior fittings, including the wallpaper, are original. The partnership of Johnson and Trubshaw also designed a classical version based on the original house, but this design was rejected in favor of the more fashionable Tudor Gothic style.