Guildhall

GUILDHALL, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1196523
Date first listed:
21-Oct-1949
Statutory Address:
GUILDHALL, HIGH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1196523
Date first listed:
21-Oct-1949
Statutory Address 1:
GUILDHALL, HIGH STREET

Location

Statutory Address:
GUILDHALL, HIGH STREET

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

County:
Staffordshire
District:
Newcastle-under-Lyme (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SJ 84876 45965

Details

NEWCASTLE UNDER LYME

SJ8445NE HIGH STREET 644-1/10/22 Guildhall 21/10/49

GV II

Guildhall. A re-modelling in 1861 of an earlier building of 1713. Red brick with stone dressings and plain tiled roof. 4 bays, articulated by giant stone pilasters, with 2-light sashes with stone architraves. Apsidal north-western end and stone full-height Tuscan portico to south-east with 2-stage clock tower and cupola over. Stone plinth and string course, parapet eaves. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire: Harmondsworth; The Victoria History of the County of Stafford: Jenkins J G: A History of Newcastle Under Lyme: Stafford: 1983-: 10).

Listing NGR: SJ8487645965

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385933
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Sources

Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Stafford, (1908)
Jenkins, J G, A History of Newcastle Under Lyme, (1983), 10
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974)

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