29,29A AND 29B, QUEEN STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268555
Date first listed:: 14-Oct-1996
List Entry Name:: 29,29A AND 29B, QUEEN STREET
Statutory Address:: 29,29A AND 29B, QUEEN STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268555
Date first listed:: 14-Oct-1996
List Entry Name:: 29,29A AND 29B, QUEEN STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 29,29A AND 29B, QUEEN STREET

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:: 29,29A AND 29B, QUEEN STREET

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County:: Staffordshire
District:: Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
Parish:: Leek
National Grid Reference:: SJ 98805 56587

Details

LEEK

SJ9856NE QUEEN STREET 611-1/5/105 (North side) Nos.29, 29A AND 29B and attached railings

GV II

Terrace of 3 houses. Dated 1877. Built by William Larner Sugden for himself and his family. Brick with terracotta dressings and plain-tiled roof. Queen-Anne style. EXTERIOR: 2-storeyed with attics, an asymmetrical composition with advanced gabled front of No.27 (Sugden's own house) to left, and 2-window range comprising Nos 29a and 29b to right. Queen Anne style. Ground floor of gable has paired sashes with leaded and stained glass upper panes in canted bay with small side lights in the angles. First floor corbelled out with tripartite window with terracotta mullions, leading and stained glass. Dated with initials WLS and JMBS over the first floor. Round-arched attic window divided by 2 mullions recessed beneath overhanging enriched bargeboards with pendant finial at apex. Stone brackets perhaps formerly carried balconette. Terracotta panels with stylised flowers flank these upper windows. Paired doorways in right-hand range, recessed round-arched porches with stone canopy over. Doors with leaded light in upper panel. Terracotta medallion over doorway of No.29b with initials WS on foliate ground. Single small window to right of doorway on each floor. Deep terracotta eaves band. 2-window range beyond with paired 2-pane sashes with terracotta mullions in squared bay windows with shallow lean-to roofs. Terracotta frieze. Similar sash windows above. Deep terracotta cornice. Gabled dormers in the roof with fretted wood bargeboards. Axial and end wall stacks enriched with terracotta panels. Narrow bay to left of gable houses passage through to rear with small windows above. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: cast-iron railings in front of Nos 29a and 29b, with fleur-de-lys on principal posts, scrollwork and decorative central panel. A restrained but finely detailed example in Queen Anne style, by a notable local architect, whose work raised the profile of the town's architectural quality.

Listing NGR: SJ9880556587

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Legacy System number:: 461679
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.