Description

LICHFIELD

SK1109NE BREADMARKET STREET
1094-1/5/64 (South West side)
05/02/52 Nos.7 AND 9
(Formerly Listed as:
BREADMARKET STREET
(South West side)
Three Crowns Inn)

GV II

Public house, now office and shops. Early C18 with later
alterations. Stucco with tile roof and brick cross-axial
stack. Georgian style.
3 storeys; 5-window range. 2 platt bands and top frieze and
cornice. Central carriageway with paired doors in altered
ground floor has late C20 shop front to left and C20 shop
front in traditional style to right; right end has entrance
with overlight to 6-fielded-panel door, 2 windows to left have
sills and 24-pane sashes. Windows to upper floors have sills,
12-pane sashes to 1st floor, but that to right end has 4-pane
sash; 2nd floor has 6-pane sashes, but 2 windows to end with
casements with leaded lights.
INTERIOR: open well staircase has turned balusters, square
newels and moulded handrail.
HISTORY: formerly the Three Crowns public house, a plaque
records Dr Johnson's stays here during his many visits to
Lichfield accompanied by Boswell, who described him as
'monarchising with no fewer than three crowns over his royal
brow'.

Listing NGR: SK1173209534

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26482924

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Recommended Books

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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990