Borough Hall
BOROUGH HALL, EASTGATE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195382
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Borough Hall
- Statutory Address:
- BOROUGH HALL, EASTGATE STREET
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195382
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Borough Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOROUGH HALL, EASTGATE STREET
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:
- BOROUGH HALL, EASTGATE STREET
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 92299 23296
Details
STAFFORD
SJ9223SW EASTGATE STREET 590-1/10/19 (South West side) 17/12/71 Borough Hall
GV II
Borough hall, now theatre. 1877 with later C19 addition. French Gothic style. By Henry Ward of Stafford Brick with ashlar dressings; slate roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; symmetrical 9-window range. Ground floor of rock-faced stone with frieze of shields above, brick diapering over 1st floor windows and top modillioned ashlar cornice and parapet; centre breaks forward under coped gable, flanking gablets. Entrance of 2 orders has polished marble shafts and C20 inserted canopy over paired panelled doors. Ground floor has 7 windows to each side in rhythmical arrangement of large and small arches, piers with nook shafts, weathered sills and continuous hood moulds; end entrances; 1st floor has central 4-light plate tracery window with red sandstone shafts, canted balcony on moulded base has arcading, other windows of 2 lights, foliate impost bands. Roundels over 1st floor windows, round shafts to ends and gabled centre are corbelled from impost level; gable has 2 quatrefoils with projecting heads and wheel window set in diapered band, similar wheel windows to gablets. Addition to left of 2 storeys; 3-window range. Ashlar plinth, terracotta dressings, 2 string courses and 1st floor impost course, and top modillioned cornice and parapet with blind roundels. Ground floor has windows with 4-centred heads, originally of 3 lights with ovolo mullions, now with tripartite pointed sashes; 1st floor has windows of 3 pointed lights with transoms and enriched aprons, and tympanums with enriched panels; diapering over windows with 2 profile medallions; roof has iron cresting and skylights. INTERIOR: much altered but retaining staircase to rear of hall. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire: London: 1974-: P.244).
Listing NGR: SJ9228023300
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383961
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974), 244
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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