Crown Hotel
CROWN HOTEL, 38, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1196742
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Crown Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- CROWN HOTEL, 38, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1196742
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Crown Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- CROWN HOTEL, 38, HIGH 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:
- CROWN HOTEL, 38, HIGH 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 90192 33868
Details
STONE
SJ9033 HIGH STREET, Stone 651-1/7/31 (South West side) 09/03/49 No.38 Crown Hotel
GV II*
Hotel. 1778. By Henry Holland. Brick with ashlar dressings; brick end stacks. Double-depth plan. Georgian style. 3 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range; ends bowed. Platt band over ground floor; top cornice. Entrance has Ionic porch with flagpole supporting scrolled wrought-iron bracket above, overlight and paired half-glazed doors; flanking lanterns. Windows have sills and rubbed brick flat arches, those to ground floor with 8:12:8-pane tripartite sashes; similar sashes to 1st floor flank window with 12-pane sash in round-headed recess; 2nd floor has 6-pane sashes. Right return has 2-storey C19 rear wing which projects with bowed re-entrant with 20-pane sash; windows mostly casements, segmental-headed windows to 1st floor; right end has late C19 shop front with panelled pilasters and blocked entrance; extensive C20 additions. INTERIOR has c1900 fittings: open well stair with splat balusters, panelling and 2 timber fireplaces. The hotel was important as a staging post for coaches on the London-Holyhead and London-Carlisle routes and served as a mail distribution point. A room at the hotel was used by the Blessed Dominic Barberi for the 1st Catholic Mass in Stone since the Reformation, 1842, the start of the Catholic revival in Stone. (Wilson A CP: Dominic Barberi Blessed CP: London: 1967-: 247-8; Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire: London: 1974-: 269).
Listing NGR: SJ9019233868
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386003
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Wilson, A, Dominic Barberi Blessed, (1967), 247-8
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974), 269
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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