
The Tudor Cafe is a beautiful example of Tudor architecture, built in 1510 (at the beginning of the 16th century). If you visit the house on Bore Street in Lichfield today, you will visit the Tudor Cafe and Restaurant.
It was originally called Lichfield House, now it is Tudor of Lichfield. It was built when Henry VIII came to the throne, a year before.
It is a Grade II* listed building at 32 Bore Street.
House, now cafe. Dated 1510 but probably late C16 with C18 alterations and C20 connecting block. Timber-frame with brick rear range and wing; tile roofs with enriched cresting and brick stacks. 3 storeys; 3-window range. Jettied 1st and 2nd floors and 3 gables; bracketed upper jetty and enriched finials and end pendants to gables. Entrance to left of centre has moulded posts to jetty and small-paned and fielded-panel half-glazed door; passageway to Tudor Row to left end. Ground floor has 2 canted oriels, that to left end has 4-pane sash, that to right end has 1:4:1 fixed lights with leaded glazing above transom, window to right of entrance has plate glass and leaded glazing above transom; 1st floor has 3-light transomed windows with upper leaded glazing; 2nd floor has 2-light casements with moulded frames. Large brick stack. Timber-framing on sole plate, close studding to ground floor, herring bone bracing to 1st floor and curved cusped braces below 2nd floor windows and to gables. 2 enriched C19 rainwater heads. Rear has brick platt pands and modillioned brick cornices, segmental-headed windows, some with pegged cross-casements. Rear wing, attached by C20 block, has brick cornice and varied casement windows; 5-window range has two 3-light pegged casements and 3 blind windows, and 2-light pegged casements to 2nd floor; projecting rear block has varied fenestration and C20 addition to end. INTERIOR: Chamfered beams and joists; ground floor has C17 and early C18 panelling; open-well stair has turned balusters, square newels and moulded handrail, 2 lions to landing; rear wing has chamfered beams and joists; ?former gable end has timber-framing with 2 jetties. A good well preserved C16 building; a local landmark.
32 Bore Street - Lichfield - Heritage Gateway