Cumberland House

CUMBERLAND HOUSE, 8, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1219093
Date first listed:
09-Mar-1949
List Entry Name:
Cumberland House
Statutory Address:
CUMBERLAND HOUSE, 8, HIGH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1219093
Date first listed:
09-Mar-1949
List Entry Name:
Cumberland House
Statutory Address 1:
CUMBERLAND HOUSE, 8, 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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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:
CUMBERLAND HOUSE, 8, 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 90288 33802

Details

STONE

SJ9033 HIGH STREET, Stone 651-1/7/25 (South West side) 09/03/49 No.8 Cumberland House

GV II

House, now surgery. Early to mid C18. Stucco; tile roof with brick end stacks. Double-depth plan. Georgian style. 3 storeys; symmetrical 5-window range. Moulded plinth and top entablature with pulvinated frieze; rusticated end pilasters. Entrance has aedicule with Doric half-columns with fluted capitals and Ionic entablature, fanlight with decorative glazing bars and 6-panel door. Windows have sills and 12-pane sashes, 9-pane sashes to 2nd floor. Rear has 2 gabled wings with coped gables. INTERIOR: open-well stair to right of hall has closed string, column-on-vase balusters, square newels and moulded handrail; fielded-panelled dado; many rooms have rich Adam-style fireplaces, some with relief panels of figures; some rooms have enriched dado rails and cornices, modillioned cornice to entrance hall. The Duke of Cumberland is said to have stayed here, 1745. A good example of an early Georgian town house.

Listing NGR: SJ9028833802

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Legacy System number:
385997
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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