Description

LICHFIELD

SK1109NW BEACON STREET
1094-1/4/16 (West side)
05/02/52 Angel Croft Hotel and attached
outbuilding, front railings and
gates
(Formerly Listed as:
BEACON STREET
Angel Croft Hotel)
(Formerly Listed as:
BEACON STREET
Railings and gates of Angel Croft
Hotel)

GV II*

Hotel. c1750. Brick with ashlar dressings; hipped graduated
slate roof with return lateral stacks. Double-depth plan.
Georgian style. 3 storeys; symmetrical 5-window range. Plaster
plinth; ground and 1st floor sill bands; top cornice and
blocking course. Round-headed entrance has aedicule with Doric
columns and Tuscan entablature with fluted frieze and
pediment; fanlight with thick glazing bars over
6-fielded-panel door. Windows have sills, rubbed brick flat
arches over 12-pane sashes to ground and 1st floors; windows
with 6-pane sashes to 2nd floor. Rear has tall round-headed
stair window with glazing bars and flanking full-height canted
bays. Tall stair window to right return. Outbuilding to front
right has ramped cornice and 2 windows with 9-pane horned
sashes to left and connects with front stone-coped brick wall
with railings with fleur-de-lys finials, enriched central
paired gates with similar gate piers and overthrow with 2
lantern holders.
Railings and gates of Angel Croft Hotel were listed on 6.3.70.

Listing NGR: SK1136509716

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17557642

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Recommended Books

• 
  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
• 
  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)