The Auction Café
Coming soon to the heart of Lichfield
The Auction Café by Richard Winterton Auctioneers launches at a Grade II listed building in the heart of Lichfield in November 2024.
Offering specialist valuations alongside delicious coffee and cake, the premises will also be a base to find out more about the world of auctions, valuations, probate services and house clearances.
Fittingly, the location – 34 Market Street – is just yards away from the very first office Wintertons opened in Breadmarket Street back in 1864.
Our new venture will have around 30 covers where people can enjoy speciality coffee, tea, cakes and savoury snacks alongside free valuations of jewellery and antiques.
Watch this space for more details soon!
Sounding the gravel on a new venture
“We’re best known for putting items under the hammer but it will also be coffee and cakes over the counter when The Auction Café opens,” says auctioneer and managing director Richard Winterton.
“Lichfield is where it all started off for Wintertons, with our first office in Breadmarket Street back in 1864.
“So it’s wonderfully fitting in our 160th year to be bringing it all back home with this new venture just a few yards away in a Georgian building next to Samuel Johnson’s Birthplace.
“This will be a brilliant central location in Lichfield for people to come and have their jewellery, watches, silver and antiques valued whilst checking out a range of brilliant beverages and choice cakes.
Now celebrating 160 years, Wintertons has been a driving force in the auction world for seven generations, yielding gavels across Staffordshire since 1864.
With its headquarters remaining at The Lichfield Auction Centre, Fradley Park, the firm opened an additional auction house in Tamworth in 2021.
2022 marked a quarter of a century since Richard Winterton and wife Janet took over the family business.
Today, sons Tom, Ben, Harry and James are all part of the firm.
