Trent Hospital (Main Block)

TRENT HOSPITAL (MAIN BLOCK), CROWN STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1196739
Date first listed:
27-Jul-1972
List Entry Name:
Trent Hospital (Main Block)
Statutory Address:
TRENT HOSPITAL (MAIN BLOCK), CROWN STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1196739
Date first listed:
27-Jul-1972
List Entry Name:
Trent Hospital (Main Block)
Statutory Address 1:
TRENT HOSPITAL (MAIN BLOCK), CROWN STREET

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
TRENT HOSPITAL (MAIN BLOCK), CROWN STREET

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

County:
Staffordshire
District:
Stafford (District Authority)
Parish:
Stone
National Grid Reference:
SJ 89987 33809

Details

STONE

SJ8933 CROWN STREET, Stone 651-1/6/18 (South side (off)) 27/07/72 Trent Hospital (Main block)

GV II

Workhouse, now hospital. 1792-3; 2nd storey added 1838-9, by Boulton and Palmer of Stafford; later C19 additions. H-plan. Georgian style. Brick with plaster and ashlar dressings; slate M-roof, hipped to wings, with brick stacks. 2 storeys; 5-window range with 3-storey cross wings. Platt bands to wings over 1st floor; top modillioned brick friezes and ashlar cornices. Central entrance has plaster surround and cornice, C20 glazed doors, sidelights and C20 glazed timber porch; segmental-headed entrances to inner returns of wings. Windows have sills, plaster surrounds and simple cornices, most with 4-pane horned sashes, but central 1st floor tripartite window with plaster apron panel and small-paned iron glazing, similar windows to wings, that to ground floor of right wing has inserted French window, those to 1st floors have central 4-pane horned sashes; 2nd floor of wings have triple round-headed lights with small-paned glazing. Axial stack and return lateral stacks. Tower to right return has angle pilasters and top frieze, paired round-headed lights, those to top louvred. Right return has iron glazing to 2nd floor windows; C19 2-storey wings project to front and rear. Rear is similar; windows have segmental lintels and varied sashes and iron glazing, central bow window with 12-pane sashes; 2-window addition to right end. INTERIOR altered, some exposed beams. The original design was copied from that of the Romford Workhouse of 1787. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire: London: 1974-: 269).

Listing NGR: SJ8998733809

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Legacy System number:
385990
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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974), 269

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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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