Longdon is a civil parish in the district of Lichfield, Staffordshire, England. It contains 32 buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, four are listed at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish contains the villages of Longdon, Gentleshaw, Upper Longdon, smaller settlements, and the surrounding countryside. Most of the listed buildings are houses and associated structures, cottages, farmhouses and farm buildings. The other buildings include a church, a country house and associated structures, the remains of another country house, a former water mill, and a former windmill.
The oldest parts are the nave and chancel, and they incorporate some 12th-century material. The west tower and south chapel date from the 16th century, and the north transept was added in 1870. The church is built in sandstone with roofs of tile and slate. The tower has four stages, diagonal buttresses, a pointed west doorway, a three-light west window, and an embattledparapet with crocketed corner finials. The south chapel also has an embattled parapet, and the north door and the chancel arch are Norman.[2][3]
A house divided into three cottages, it is timber framed with brick infill, some rebuilding in brick, and a hipped thatched roof with a scalloped ridge. It consists of a three-bayaisled hall, a single-bay hall to the west, and a two-bay projecting western cross-wing. Most of the windows are casements.[4]
The remains of a country house, which was altered and extended in about 1600 and during the 19th century, and was largely demolished in 1932. The older parts are in sandstone and the later extensions are in red brick with stone dressings. The principal remains are of the medieval great hall that has a chamferedplinth, and contains transomed windows, and a Tudor arched doorway with a moulded surround, a hood mould, and a moulded cornice hood. There is also an external chimney stack.[5][6]
The farmhouse is timber framed with brick infill and some applied timber framing, and it has a tile roof. There are two storeys and three bays. The windows are casements, and inside is exposed timber framing.[7]
The house was altered and extended in the 19th century. It is timber framed with plastered and painted brick infill, and has a tile roof. There are two storeys and a T-shaped plan, consisting of a three-bay hall range, a two-bay gabled cross-wing at the east, and a 19th-century rear wing. The gable of the cross-wing is jettied on carved brackets. On the main range is a gabled porch with a gabled dormer above, and a two-storey cantedbay window with a hipped roof to the right. There is another canted bay window at the rear, and most of the windows are sashes.[8]
A timber framed house, which has been divided into four units, with rebuilding and extensions in brick, and a tile roof. There are two storeys, a main range of three bays, and a projecting gabled wing on the right. The windows are casements.[9]
The house, that was restored in the 1980s, is timber framed with brick infill, and has a tile roof. Three is one storey and attic, and three bays. The windows are casements with latticed panes, and there is one long dormer.[10]
The cottage is in renderedtimber framing and has a tile roof. There is one storey and an attic, two bays, and a single-storey extension to the right. The central doorway has a segmental head, the windows are casements with segmental heads, and there is an attic dormer with the roof arched over it.[11]
The cottage, which was altered and extended in the 20th century, is timber framed with brick infill, and a tile roof. There is one story and an attic, three bays, and a rear wing. The windows are in plate glass, and there are two gableddormers.[12]
The farmhouse is in red brick with storey bands, a coved eaves band, and tile roofs. There are two storeys and attics, and the house consists of a central projecting range with a front of two bays, and flanking gabled two-bay cross-wings. In the centre is a doorway, and the windows are casements.[13]
The farmhouse was extended in the 18th century and altered in the 19th century. It is in red and brown brick on a sandstoneplinth, with storey bands and a tile roof; There is a T-shaped plan, consisting of a main range of two storeys and an attic, and three bays, and a rear wing with two storeys and two bays. On the front is a flat-roofed porch, the windows are casements, and all have incised lintels.[14]
The house, which has been altered, is in brown brick with a hipped tile roof. There are two storeys and three bays, the middle bay projecting and gabled. In the middle bay is a porch with a stone four-centred arched head and a mouldedcornice, and the windows are casements.[15]
The buildings are in red brick and have tile roofs with stone coped verges on shaped kneelers. The coach house and stable block form an H-shaped plan, and have two storeys with a storey band. The openings include large coach house doors, a stable door, and casement windows, most with segmental heads. The stable yard is enclosed by a brick wall with an acorn finial and a lamp standard. At the entrance to the yard are square gate piers, each with a dentilledcornice and a gadrooned acorn finial.[16]
The farmhouse is in red brick with an eaves band and a tile roof. There are two storeys, and four bays. On the front is a bay window with a hipped roof, and two doorways. Most of the windows are casements with segmental heads and a hood mould band.[17]
The farm buildings are mainly in red brick with tile roofs, and are in two ranges at right angles, forming an L-shaped plan. The cowhouse and stables have two storeys, and the openings include casement windows. doorways with segmental heads, tiers of ventilation slits, an oval pigeon loft, and a loft door approached by external steps. The bakehouse has some timber framing, one storey, a doorway, and casement windows.[18]
The remodelling of an earlier house, it has a timber framed core, the external walls replaced by red brick on a sandstoneplinth, with pilaster strips and a dentilledeaves band. The roof is tiled and the house has a plan of two parallel ranges. There are two storeys, a cellar, and an attic, a front of four bays under two gables. The doorway and the windows, which are casements, have segmental heads.[19]
The house has plastered walls, a plain parapet with mouldedcoping, and a hipped tile roof. There are two storeys, six bays, and a low two-storey extension to the left. The central doorway has pilasters, most of the windows are sashes with stepped lintels, there are inserted French casements, and a stair window with a semicircular head at the rear.[20]
A country house that was altered and extended in about 1840. It is in red brick with hipped roofs of tile and slate. The southeast front is in Queen Anne style, it has two storeys, quoins, corner pilaster strips, a dentilledeavescornice, and a balustradedparapet. There are seven bays, the middle three bays projecting under a pediment containing a blind oculus with a keystone. The central doorway has a rusticated surround, and the windows are sashes. On the southwest front is a two-storey three-bay porte-cochère. The northwest front has cross-wings with two storeys and an attic, and shaped gables with finials. There is a stair wing to the northwest and a ballroom and servants' wing to the northeast.[2][21]
At the entrance to the garden are square rusticated stone piers with ball finials, between which are cast iron gates. Enclosing the garden to the south of the hall are red brick walls with stone coping that are ramped down from the piers and the corners.[22]
The farmhouse, later a private house, is in red brick with a tile roof. There are two storeys and an attic, and a T-shaped plan, consisting of a three-bay main range and a rear wing. The windows are casements with segmental heads and hood mould bands.[24]
The coach house and stables are in painted brick with a tile roof, and form an L-shaped plan. There is one storey and a loft, and the building contains a carriage opening and windows, all with segmental heads.[25]
The house has plastered walls with rusticatedquoins, a floor band, a panelled parapet, and a hippedslate roof. There are two storeys, a west front of eight bays, a south front of three bays, and a single-storey flat-roofed extension on the left. On the front is a bowed porch with a panelled parapet, and the windows are sashes with moulded sills and architraves, and panels under the upper floor windows.[26]
A former water mill and mill house converted into a private house, they are in brick, the mill is painted, and each has a dentilledeaves band and a tile roof. The house has three storeys, three bays, a central gabled porch, and casement windows with segmental heads. The former mill has two storeys, a lean-to projection, and semicircular-headed casement windows in the upper floor.[28]
The former windmill is in red brick on a high sandstoneplinth. It has a circular plan, tapering to a cylindrical top storey. There is an entrance, and the windows have segmental heads.[29]
A red brick house with a dentilledeaves band, and a tile roof. There are two storeys and three bays. The central doorway has a rectangular fanlight and a bracketed flat hood, and the windows are casements with segmental heads.[30]
The lodge to the former hall was designed by John Shaw in Tudor style. It is in red brick with stone dressings, on a chamferedplinth, and has plain parapets. The central block has two storeys, and octagonal corner turrets with ogee domes, and it contains a four-centred arch, and a mullioned three-light oriel window above. Flanking this are two two-storey bays and a single-storey bay. The windows have chamfered mullions and hood moulds.[5][31]
A red brick house that was later extended to the right in the same style. It has a dentilledeaves band, a tile roof, two storeys and an attic, and four bays. To the left is a stone porch with pilasters, to the right is a doorway with a rectangular fanlight, and the windows are sashes with grooved lintels and keystones.[32]
The wall runs along the north side of the grounds of the hall, and is in stone with a dentilledcornice. The main gates are wooden and have openwork decoration, and are flanked by gate piers with rusticatedquoins and vase finials. To the left is another gateway flanked by square piers with acorn finials, and further to the left is another gateway with piers that have ball finials.[34]
A pair of red brick cottages with tile roofs in Tudor style. They have one storey and an attic, and roughly an L-shaped plan. To the left is a projecting gabled wing with a bay window and a casement window above, to the right is a gabled porch that has a Tudor arched doorway with a fanlight, and between these is a gabled dormer. All the gables have ornamental fretted bargeboards, pendants and finials.[35]
