39, 39A AND 40, GREENGATE STREET
39, 39A AND 40, GREENGATE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1212138
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jan-1951
- List Entry Name:
- 39, 39A AND 40, GREENGATE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 39, 39A AND 40, GREENGATE STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1212138
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jan-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 16-Feb-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 39, 39A AND 40, GREENGATE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 39, 39A AND 40, GREENGATE 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:
- 39, 39A AND 40, GREENGATE 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 92229 23116
Details
STAFFORD
SJ9223SW GREENGATE STREET 590-1/10/45 (West side) 16/01/51 Nos.39, 39A AND 40 (Formerly Listed as: GREENGATE STREET (West side) Nos.39 AND 40)
GV II
Two houses, now shop and office. Mid C18 with early C19 and later alterations. Brick with ashlar dressings; tile roof with coped gable and brick end and cross-axial stack. Early Georgian style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic; 9-window range. Platt band over ground floor and top cornice; quoins. 2 early C20 shopfronts; round-headed entrance to right end has early C19 doorcase with archivolt, pilaster strips, frieze and pediment; fanlight over 6-panel door. 1st floor has windows with rubbed brick flat arches and ashlar keys over 9/6-pane sashes in moulded frames to 5 windows to left, 4 windows to right have 2-panel horned sashes; 3rd window from each end has eared and shouldered architrave with key and moulded sill on blocks; 4 pedimented dormers with small-paned casements. 2 rainwater heads with cherubs in round arches, and square downspouts to 1st floor only. Rear has gabled wing and early C19 gabled range to left, with 2 gables to end with windows in architraves, friezes and pediments; return has windows with small-paned casements with intersecting glazing bars. INTERIOR: 1820s detailing; stair with slender balusters and wreathed handrail; room to rear with rich plaster cornice and marble fireplace; 2 lamp brackets to 1st floor corridor; left end has early C18 open well stair to 1st floor up, with spiral balusters, moulded and ramped handrail, cut string with moulded tread ends and bolection-moulded dado panelling; 3 contemporary 6-fielded-panel doors. Ground floor originally had 2 entrances with eared architraves and signs remain of keys to windows. (County Planning Department Photographic Collection).
Listing NGR: SJ9222823120
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383987
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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