50, HIGH STREET

50, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1196743
Date first listed:
09-Mar-1949
List Entry Name:
50, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:
50, HIGH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1196743
Date first listed:
09-Mar-1949
Date of most recent amendment:
24-Jan-1992
List Entry Name:
50, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 1:
50, 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
50, 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 90150 33924

Details

STONE

SJ9033 HIGH STREET, Stone 651-1/7/33 (South West side) 09/03/49 No.50 (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET, Stone (South side) No.52 Joule's Brewery Office)

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Shown on OS map as Nos 50 and 52. Office for Joule's Brewery, now offices and shop. c1780. Brick with ashlar dressings; hipped slate roof with brick stacks. Double-depth plan. Georgian style. 3 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range with 2-window range breaking forward to right. Ashlar plinth and 1st and 2nd floor sill bands; top modillioned cornice. Symmetrical range has plastered ground floor; round-headed entrance has Tuscan porch with wrought iron side panels, fanlight with decorative glazing bars over 6-panel door; modillioned cornice continued over flanking bowed windows, which have sills to 8:12:8-pane tripartite sashes. Range to right has blocked round-headed entrance to left end and round-headed entrance to right end with doorcase with reeded pilasters and open pediment, fanlight with decorative glazing bars over 6-panel door (former No 52); 2 ground floor windows have sills, and rubbed brick flat arches over 12-pane sashes. Upper floors have windows with rubbed brick flat arches, 12-pane sashes to 1st floor, C20 casements to 2nd floor. Rear has gabled wing and large C20 additions. The brewery was founded in the early C18 and was taken over by Francis Joule in 1785; it was closed in 1974. Only the C19 facade of the brewery remains to the right of former No 52. (Thorold H: Staffordshire, A Shell Guide: London: 1978-: 162).

Listing NGR: SJ9015033924

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
386005
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Thorold, H, Shell County Guides in Staffordshire, (1978), 162

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Ordnance survey map of 50, HIGH STREET

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