The Priests House and Atached Garden Walls and Gate Piers
THE PRIESTS HOUSE AND ATACHED GARDEN WALLS AND GATE PIERS, CASTLE HILL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1037913
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Priests House and Atached Garden Walls and Gate Piers
- Statutory Address:
- THE PRIESTS HOUSE AND ATACHED GARDEN WALLS AND GATE PIERS, CASTLE HILL ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1037913
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jan-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Priests House and Atached Garden Walls and Gate Piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE PRIESTS HOUSE AND ATACHED GARDEN WALLS AND GATE PIERS, CASTLE HILL ROAD
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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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE PRIESTS HOUSE AND ATACHED GARDEN WALLS AND GATE PIERS, CASTLE HILL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Alton
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 07360 42390
Details
ALTON C.P. CASTLE HILL ROAD (North-west side) SK 0642-0742 13/3 The Priest's House and 3/1/67 attached garden walls and gate piers (Formerly listed as "The Presbytery") GV II Former schoolmaster's house, walls and gate piers. C17 extended and remodelled by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin circa 1843. Ashlar with herringbone tooling, some edged; plain tile roof with crested ridge tiles and coped verges; ashlar external end stack and lateral external stack. Aligned north- west/south-east facing south-west; the extension is in a Vernacular Revival style to match the original house. C17 house to the left. C19 extension to the right with a higher ridge. C17 house: 2 storeys, 2 bays, chamfer mullioned windows, those to the ground floor have a continuous hood mould; central gabled porch with stone slate roof and blocked doorway with cambered arch. C19 extension: 2 storeys, irregular facade, windows to ground and first floors left have three 4-centred arch lights beneath a square head, sunken spandrels and returned hood moulds, similar single-light window to ground floor right; central gabled porch with stone slate roof, 4-centred doorway with panelled spandrels and half-glazed door; lateral chimney stack to right of centre. Coped garden walls enclose gardens to the front and rear; a pair of gate piers at the south east angle of the front garden lead to the Hospital of St. John (q.v.), The Castle (q.v.), and St. Johns Preparatory School (q.v.). They are made of rusticated rock-faced ashlar and have pyramidal caps.
Listing NGR: SK0736242392
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 274999
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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