8, Market Square
1, Greengate Street, Stafford, ST16 2HN
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Overview
- 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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- 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
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.
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 384011
- 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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