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STAMFORD HOUSE

STAMFORD HOUSE, 1-11, STAMFORD NEW ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1084311
Date first listed:: 26-Apr-1992
List Entry Name:: STAMFORD HOUSE
Statutory Address:: STAMFORD HOUSE, 1-11, STAMFORD NEW ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1084311
Date first listed:: 26-Apr-1992
List Entry Name:: STAMFORD HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: STAMFORD HOUSE, 1-11, STAMFORD NEW ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: STAMFORD HOUSE, 1-11, STAMFORD NEW ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Trafford (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SJ7691787856

Details

SJ 7687 ALTRINCHAM STAMFORD NEW ROAD

458-0/10001-7/10001 Nos 1-11 Stamford House

GV II

Includes Nos 1 to 13 (odd) Moss Lane. Formerly known as Station Buildings. Commercial building with offices over shops. 1904-5, by Charles Heathcote & Sons, for J.H.Brown Esq.; slightly altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, the principal elevations mostly faced with glazed buff terracotta dressings; green slate mansard roof, brick chimneys with terracotta dressings. L-shaped plan on corner site, formed by 2 ranges at right-angles linked over a wagon entry from Moss Lane. Edwardian baroque style. Three storeys with basement and attic storey, 3:1:3 bays, almost symmetrical, plus a convex corner to the right; terracotta pilasters, frieze and cornice to ground floor; giant Ionic pilasters to the 1st and 2nd floors, with foliated pendants to the capitals, a waterleaf frieze and a prominent moulded cornice on scrolled brackets; and an open-segmental pediment to the centre bay containing a cartouche lettered "STATION BUILDINGS" with an elaborately scrolled surround including foliated pendants. At ground floor the centre has a doorway with set-in blocked columns and flat-arched head, the voussoirs interrupted by a panel with eared architrave, flanked by cartouches lettered "B"; the other bays have C20 shop fronts in original openings. At 1st floor the centre has a 12-pane sashed window in an architrave with blocked colonettes, the other bays have pairs of 12-pane sashes with eared architraves and triple keystones; at 2nd floor the centre has a 2-light window and the other bays have 3-light windows, all treated as colonnades with blocked colonettes and antae, and all with 8-pane sashes. The attic storey has flat-roofed dormers also with 8-pane sashes. Four tall panelled chimneys with banded corners and moulded terracotta cornices. Left return wall (overlooking station yard) is convex on plan, has featured centre with 2-light windows at 1st and 2nd floors with architraves like the front and a segmental open pediment. The convex corner to the right has (inter alia) blocked colonettes at 2nd floor, and a cartouche in the centre lettered "JHB" on a pedestal dated "1905". The south elevation (to Moss Lane), in portions of 2, 4 and 4 bays successively stepped up a slight slope, has a segmental-arched wagon entry between the 1st and 2nd portions, a doorway between the 2nd and 3rd, and segmental oriels over these terminating as domed turrets at attic level, but otherwise matches the front (except for altered glazing of attic windows), including 5 matching chimneys. The rear of each range has (inter alia) a central bay with staggered stair-windows and an open-segmental pediment containing a keyed oculus. INTERIOR: staircases mounting round lifts; axial corridors to office floors with wooden panelled dados and glazed screens. HISTORY: Charles Heathcote was one of the outstanding contemporary Manchester architects: original blue-prints for this building held at Altrincham Town Hall.

Forms group with Hos 42 and 44 (station Hotel) on opposite side of street, and with Clock Tower to north, together marking northern boundary of Conservation Area.

Listing NGR: SJ7691787856

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Legacy System number:: 358735
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.