Staffordshire County Council Occupational Health Unit / The Croft

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

STAFFORD

SJ9223SW TIPPING STREET 590-1/10/95 (South side) 16/01/51 No.15 Staffordshire County Council Occupational Health Unit (Formerly Listed as: TIPPING STREET No.15 The Croft)

GV II

House, now office. c1740 with later alterations. Brick with vitrified headers and ashlar dressings; internally central bay flanked by timber-framed cross walls; tile roof with brick end stack. Double-depth plan. Georgian style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic; 4-window range. Cornice over ground floor and top cornice. Entrance to left of centre has late C18 porch with Doric columns and Tuscan entablature, overlight to 6-flush-panel door; small entrance in plain surround with 6-flush-panel door to left end. Windows have sills, and rubbed brick flat arches with keys, fluted to ground floor, fielded-panelled to 1st floor, over 12-pane sashes in moulded frames; 4 gabled dormers with casements. Pebble-dash left return with projecting stack; right return rebuilt in late C20 with blind windows. Rear has brick platt bands over segmental-headed windows and gabled wing. INTERIOR: some timber-framed interior walls with square framing; open-well stair with column-on-vase balusters, square newels and moulded handrails; room to right has C17 panelling with fluted top panels, round-headed cupboard and 6-fielded-panel door with Jacobean relief panel over.

Listing NGR: SJ9236623177

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/0081 IOE Records taken by Chris Ayre; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr Chris Ayre. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project