8, Market Square

1, Greengate Street, Stafford, ST16 2HN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1195359
Date first listed:: 17-Dec-1971
List Entry Name:: 8, Market Square
Statutory Address:: 1, Greengate Street, Stafford, ST16 2HN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1195359
Date first listed:: 17-Dec-1971
List Entry Name:: 8, Market Square
Statutory Address 1:: 1, Greengate Street, Stafford, ST16 2HN
Statutory Address 2:: 8, Market Square, Stafford, ST16 2JP

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

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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:: 1, Greengate Street, Stafford, ST16 2HN
Statutory Address:: 8, Market Square, Stafford, ST16 2JP

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

County:: Staffordshire
District:: Stafford (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SJ 92202 23271

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 14/02/2020

SJ9223SW 590-1/10/65

STAFFORD MARKET SQUARE (south side) No. 8

[Formerly listed as Midland Bank, No. 8, MARKET SQUARE (South side)]

17/12/71

GV II

Includes: No.1 GREENGATE STREET.

Bank. c1810 with 1890s addition. Ashlar and brick with ashlar dressings; tile roofs with brick end stacks. Double-depth plan. Georgian style.

EXTERIOR: three storeys; three-window range. Cornice over ground floor, second floor sill band and wide eaves. Ground floor has 1890s polished granite facing; end piers with brackets and one to right of entrance to left end, which has paired panelled doors; windows divided by Ionic pilaster; treatment continued to addition. First floor has large windows with 16-pane horned sashes; second floor has windows with 4/8-pane sashes.

Addition in Flemish Renaissance style. Curved corner entrance bay has flanking three-window gabled ranges. First floor cornice and top cornice and Dutch gables with flanking finials. Ground floor as above. First floor has brick piers with festoon capitals flanking three-light transomed windows with cornices and elliptical tympana with banded voussoirs and rich ashlar relief panels with cartouches, some with masks, and scroll work; similar second floor has three-light windows with leaded upper lights and top friezes, but corner has smaller three-light window with leaded glazing; rich ashlar relief panel over cornice has mask and flanking beasts, swept cornice with heraldic lion finial; gables have lunettes with banded voussoirs and leaded glazing, pilasters to segmental pediments with rich relief work and enriched flanking triangular panels.

Listing NGR: SJ9220023100

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Legacy System number:: 384011
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.