Telephone Buildings
TELEPHONE BUILDINGS, TRININTY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195853
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Telephone Buildings
- Statutory Address:
- TELEPHONE BUILDINGS, TRININTY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195853
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Telephone Buildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- TELEPHONE BUILDINGS, TRININTY 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:
- TELEPHONE BUILDINGS, TRININTY 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 88088 47583
Details
SJ 84 NE, 613-1/8/58
STOKE ON TRENT,
HANLEY,
Trinity Street (south side),
Telephone Buildings
II
Former telephone exchange and offices. c1900. Brick and
terracotta with plain tiled roof.
Eclectic style, with main block of three storeys, and three narrow
bays with flanking towers, all vertical spaces elongated.
Doorway to right with terracotta scroll and lettering over
giving name, "Telephone Buildings". Ornate 6-panelled door
with stained glass to overlight in segmentally pedimented head
carried on bulbous recessed columns with rusticated surrounds
and high bases.
Central segmentally-arched window with mullioned and transomed
oriel bay over. Balustraded parapet above and three round-arched
upper windows. Outer first-floor windows, of two mullioned and
transomed lights, have shallow pedimented heads with
egg-and-dart decoration. Moulded terracotta architrave to
lower left-hand window. Moulded string course and eaves band.
Towers have decorative terracotta panels and corbel table and
bell-cast tiled roofs and leaded turrets carried on bulbous
balusters. Central dormer in roof of three lights with pediment.
Wrought-iron balustrading forms ridge cresting.
Lower block adjoins to right, two bays, with coped gable and
segmentally arched 3-light window. Doorway to right with
terracotta moulding and pediment over.
Listing NGR: SJ8808847583
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 384509
- 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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