Police Station and Superintendents House Including Stables and Boundary Wall
POLICE STATION AND SUPERINTENDENTS HOUSE INCLUDING STABLES AND BOUNDARY WALL, LEONARD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268599
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Police Station and Superintendents House Including Stables and Boundary Wall
- Statutory Address:
- POLICE STATION AND SUPERINTENDENTS HOUSE INCLUDING STABLES AND BOUNDARY WALL, LEONARD STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268599
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1971
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Oct-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Police Station and Superintendents House Including Stables and Boundary Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- POLICE STATION AND SUPERINTENDENTS HOUSE INCLUDING STABLES AND BOUNDARY WALL, LEONARD 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.
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:
- POLICE STATION AND SUPERINTENDENTS HOUSE INCLUDING STABLES AND BOUNDARY WALL, LEONARD STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Leek
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 98599 56354
Details
LEEK
SJ9856SE LEONARD STREET 611-1/7/70 (West side) 11/11/71 Police Station and Superintendent's House including stables and boundary wall (Formerly Listed as: LEONARD STREET County Police Station)
GV II
Police station, superintendent's house, stables and boundary walls. Disused at time of inspection. Dated 1891. By William Sugden and William Larner Sugden. Brick with stone dressings and plain-tiled roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, main block and flanking recessed wings. Main block a 6-window range with central entrance in full-height concave arched recess. Paired doors in stone architrave with date and title in entablature. Pilasters each side ornamented with Staffordshire knots, and with feathers as capitals. County arms above. Round-arched window with circular leaded glazing fills the upper part of the arched recess. Flanking windows have stone architraves, and flat lintels to ground floor (15-pane sashes); round-arched windows above (12-pane sashes). Turrets corbelled out above the ground floor at each side. End wall and central stacks. Moulded stone cornice and string course over ground-floor windows. Stressed stone quoins to ground floor. Left-hand wing recessed: Two 15-pane sash windows to ground floor, 2 round arched windows above. Steps to basement storey behind heavy cast-iron area railings. Right-hand wing formerly the sergeant's house: doorway to right with canopy porch and overlight above the porch. Canted bay window with Ipswich glazing, and similar window above. The police station is linked to the superintendent's house to the S by walls and entrance gates to yard: curved wall flanks the entrance gates, with round-arched main gate and side entries separated by brick pilasters surmounted by heavy ball finials. Heavy tooled stone banding, stone copings, all somewhat exaggerated. Superintendent's House: 2-storeyed, 3-window range with advanced central bay housing entrance. Shouldered wood architrave with bolection moulded cornice continuing across side lights. 20-pane sash window above, with moulded cill band and cornice. Tympanum over window with low-relief stone carved county arms. Central block terminates as low tower with swept
parapet and pyramidal roof. Flanking shallow segmental bow windows to ground floor, with tripartite sashes. 16-pane sash windows in shallow projecting panels to first floor with steep gables with moulded wood cornice forming pediments above. Axial and rear stacks, enriched with moulding and tilehanging. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: the buildings are enclosed in a walled courtyard to the rear, with stabling and other ancillary buildings.
Listing NGR: SJ9859956354
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461644
- 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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