Registrar's Office (Part)

REGISTRAR'S OFFICE (PART), 79A, EASTGATE STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1211333
Date first listed:
16-Feb-1994
List Entry Name:
Registrar's Office (Part)
Statutory Address:
REGISTRAR'S OFFICE (PART), 79A, EASTGATE STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1211333
Date first listed:
16-Feb-1994
Date of most recent amendment:
13-May-1994
List Entry Name:
Registrar's Office (Part)
Statutory Address 1:
REGISTRAR'S OFFICE (PART), 79A, EASTGATE 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:
REGISTRAR'S OFFICE (PART), 79A, EASTGATE STREET

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

County:
Staffordshire
District:
Stafford (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SJ 92322 23280

Details

STAFFORD

SJ9223SW EASTGATE STREET 590-1/10/18 (South West side) No.78A Registrar's Office (part)

GV II

Superintendent's House, now part of registrar's office. 1893. Free Tudor style. Brick with ashlar dressings; graduated slate roof with brick end stacks. Double-depth plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic; symmetrical 3-window range. Ashlar plinth, flush bands to ground floor, and top cornice. Entrance has 4-centred arch to recessed porch with key, foliate spandrels, dripstone raised over panel with dated cartouche and flanking scrolls, low paired iron gates; inner segmental-headed entrance with half-glazed door and wall lantern to inner return. Two 2-light basement windows with grilles to left. Ground floor has recessed bow windows with fluted pilasters between ovolo-moulded cross-mullioned windows, dripstones; 1st floor has cross-mullioned window with keyed architrave and cornice between 2+2-light transomed windows with king mullion; attic has small 2-light flat-roofed dormer between hipped dormers with canted angles; all ovolo-mullioned with leaded glazing. Scrolled wrought-iron gutter brackets; rainwater heads with date and square downspouts. Gabled rear wing. INTERIOR: 8-panel doors and stair with square balusters. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire: London: 1974-: 244).

Listing NGR: SJ9232223280

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Legacy System number:
383960
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974), 244

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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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