Gunside and Bettyswood

Gunside and Bettyswood, The Park

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1119693
Date first listed:: 31-Jul-1997
List Entry Name:: Gunside and Bettyswood
Statutory Address:: Gunside and Bettyswood, The Park

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1119693
Date first listed:: 31-Jul-1997
List Entry Name:: Gunside and Bettyswood
Statutory Address 1:: Gunside and Bettyswood, The Park

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:: Gunside and Bettyswood, The Park

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

County:: Staffordshire
District:: Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
Parish:: Leek
National Grid Reference:: SJ 98375 57116

Details

SJ95NE 611/1/10010

LEEK THE PARK Gunside and Bettyswood

II House, subdivided into two dwellings. 1912, by Reginald Longdon for John Hall. Flemish bond vitrified blue brick with red brick dressings. Clay plain tile hipped roof with moulded wooden eaves cornice, moulded cast-iron gutters and lead rainwater heads.

STYLE: Queen Anne style.

PLAN: E-shaped plan, with service rooms in left [west] wing [now occupied by Gunside], and central stairhall and principal rooms on right [east] occupied by Bettyswood.

EXTERIOR: two storeys and attic. 2:3:2 bay south front; flanking two-bay projecting wings; three-bay centre with projecting porch with stone architrave, cornice and iron balcony above with French casement in moulded eared architrave with cambered head in slighdy advanced brick panel. Twelve-pane sashes, ground floor with cambered arches with keystones, cross-mullion-transom windows with leaded panes to either side of porch. Red brick band, window surrounds and rusticated quoins. Rear [north], 1: 1 :2: 1: 1 bays, bays two and four recessed with coved eaves, blind arches, three-light stair windows and canopies over doorways below; centre bay breaks forward with hipped roof, large canted bay window on ground floor with twelve-pane sashes and balcony above with French casements. Two and three-bay side elevations. Hipped dormers with casements.

INTERIOR [of Gunside]: service end [west], has some original joinery including attic chimneypieces. Principal rooms and stairhall in Bettyswood not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ9837557116

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Legacy System number:: 469190
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.