PERIMETER WALLS TO WEST AND NORTH OF HM PRISON

PERIMETER WALLS TO WEST AND NORTH OF HM PRISON, GAOL ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1211998
Date first listed:: 17-Dec-1971
List Entry Name:: PERIMETER WALLS TO WEST AND NORTH OF HM PRISON
Statutory Address:: PERIMETER WALLS TO WEST AND NORTH OF HM PRISON, GAOL ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1211998
Date first listed:: 17-Dec-1971
Date of most recent amendment:: 16-Feb-1994
List Entry Name:: PERIMETER WALLS TO WEST AND NORTH OF HM PRISON
Statutory Address 1:: PERIMETER WALLS TO WEST AND NORTH OF HM PRISON, GAOL 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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: PERIMETER WALLS TO WEST AND NORTH OF HM PRISON, GAOL ROAD

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 92111 23757

Details

STAFFORD

SJ9223NW GAOL ROAD 590-1/9/29 (East side) 17/12/71 Perimeter walls to west and north of H.M. Prison (Formerly Listed as: GAOL ROAD Perimeter Walls of HM Prison)

GV II

Perimeter walls. c1790 with 1950s alterations. Brick with ashlar dressings. High walls with ashlar offsets and coping. Angle turrets demolished by 1950s. Gatehouse rebuilt 1953. (Victoria County History of Staffordshire: Greenslade MW: A History of Stafford: London: 1979-: 204-5).

Listing NGR: SJ9211123757

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 383971
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Stafford, (1979), 204-5

Legal

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