GNOSALL VILLAGE LOCK-UP

Gnosall Village Lock-Up, Sellman Street, Gnosall, Staffordshire

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A village lock-up of 1830-32, designed and built by James Trubshaw, re-erected on a new site within the village in 1971-2. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1259930
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1972
List Entry Name:: GNOSALL VILLAGE LOCK-UP
Statutory Address:: Gnosall Village Lock-Up, Sellman Street, Gnosall, Staffordshire

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1259930
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Mar-2013
List Entry Name:: GNOSALL VILLAGE LOCK-UP
Statutory Address 1:: Gnosall Village Lock-Up, Sellman Street, Gnosall, Staffordshire

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: Gnosall Village Lock-Up, Sellman Street, Gnosall, Staffordshire

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

County:: Staffordshire
District:: Stafford (District Authority)
Parish:: Gnosall
National Grid Reference:: SJ8312320786

Summary

A village lock-up of 1830-32, designed and built by James Trubshaw, re-erected on a new site within the village in 1971-2.

Reasons for Designation

Gnosall village lock-up, built in 1830-32 by James Trubshaw, and re-erected on a new site within the village in 1971-2, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:

* Architectural interest: it displays a confident, but suitably austere, classical design;

* Intactness: with the exception of the early-C21 door, the building is substantially intact;

* Rarity: as one of only three lock-ups which still survive in Staffordshire;

* Historic interest: as the local response to the confinement of inebriates and miscreants.

History

By the late 1820s, as a result of rising unemployment and low wages, Gnosall was plagued by unrest and poaching. At a meeting of the parish Select Vestry on 10 June 1830, with the threat of the Swing Riots, a widespread uprising by agricultural workers in southern England, spreading northwards, it was decided to build a lock-up. James Trubshaw (1777-1853) was appointed as architect and builder and, although work commenced later in the same year, the lock-up was only completed in 1832 after the Select Vestry agreed to pay Mr Trubshaw an extra ten pounds to finish the job. With the ending of the unrest, the lock-up, which was situated at the junction of High Street, Brookhouse Road and Stafford Street, was little used and by the 1950s it had become a hen house. In 1964 Staffordshire County Council drew up plans to widen the road junction and move the lock-up to the County Museum at Shugborough. Its removal from the village was strongly opposed to by the Gnosall Women’s Institute who, as their project to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of the National Federation of Women’s Institutes in 1965, set about raising funds to purchase a piece of land on which it could be to re-sited. Although the Institute initially struggled to raise sufficient funds, their plans came to fruition after a piece of land on the south-east side of Sellman Street was gifted to them by a member’s husband. Despite the lock-up being partially damaged before it could be moved, after a lorry ran into it, work on its re-erection began in 1971 and was completed the following year.

Details

MATERIALS: the building is constructed from rock-faced sandstone with a sandstone flagged roof.

PLAN: it is square on plan.

EXTERIOR: the lock-up is comprised of five, large, rusticated ashlar courses with an eaves band and a pyramidal roof surmounted by a ball finial. On the south elevation there is a triangular pedimented doorway with a rusticated surround containing an early-C21, nail studded, oak door; the door contains some timbers from the original C19 door. The north, west and east elevations are blind.

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 443423
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.