The Tontine Shops
THE TONTINE SHOPS, TONTINE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1195851
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1951
- Statutory Address:
- THE TONTINE SHOPS, TONTINE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1195851
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Mar-1993
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE TONTINE SHOPS, TONTINE STREET
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE TONTINE SHOPS, TONTINE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Stoke-on-Trent (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 88396 47578
Details
STOKE ON TRENT
SJ8847 TONTINE STREET, Hanley 613-1/8/177 (South East side) 02/10/51 The Tontine Shops (Formerly Listed as: TONTINE STREET, Hanley Butchers' Market)
GV II
Butchers' market, now shopping mall. 1837 remodelled 1989-91. Ashlar with Welsh slate hipped roof. Square plan, the shops arranged around a central atrium. Late classical style. Single storey to front and sides, mainly 2 storeys to rear. Facade is a fine symmetrical composition with central entrance and clock tower over, linked to pedimented wings by unfluted Doric column screens now with glazing between. Central entrance has chanelled rustication and a round-arched head. This section breaks forward and above the entablature supports an octagonal small clock tower with leaded dome. The entablature continues over the screens and wings which have paried Doric half columns either side of a moulded stone doorcase with pediment supported by consoles. Double doors and overlights with decorative glazing. Both sides of the mall are plain but with a central entrance similar to the facade, pilasters at intervals and a continuous entablature. The right side has a single bay of two storeys towards the rear with paired sashes. Rear is in two sections, that to right on an angle and has a central aedicule in recent stonework, framing a doorcase similar to those on the facade. Either side of the aedicule are two windows with moulded stone architraves and similar small windows over, with decorative glazing. The other section of the rear has large glazed openings to ground floor with further door and windows to left. First floor has single or paired sashes and three gables. INTERIOR late C20.
Listing NGR: SJ8839647578
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 384502
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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