2,3 AND 4, CLERK BANK

2,3 AND 4, CLERK BANK

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1268613
Date first listed:
07-Jun-1972
List Entry Name:
2,3 AND 4, CLERK BANK
Statutory Address:
2,3 AND 4, CLERK BANK
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1268613
Date first listed:
07-Jun-1972
List Entry Name:
2,3 AND 4, CLERK BANK
Statutory Address 1:
2,3 AND 4, CLERK BANK

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:
2,3 AND 4, CLERK BANK

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 98262 56617

Details

LEEK

SJ9856NW CLERK BANK 611-1/4/43 (North side) 07/06/72 Nos.2, 3 AND 4

GV II

Row of 3 cottages, now in use as shops. Built in 2 phases, and probably dating back to C15 or C16, extended and refaced, C17 and C18. Partly cruck-framed, with well coursed and squared sandstone walls to Nos 3 & 4; cruck-framed with brick external walls in No.2. Plain-tiled roofs. Each cottage single-unit in plan. EXTERIOR: No.2: 2 storeys, 2-window range. Inserted C19 shop window with small panes, plank doorway and passage entry to its right, blocked window to left. Upper windows are casements of 2 and 3 lights, with small panes in the 2-light casement to the right. Left-hand gable stack. Stairs in angle with fireplace. Nos 3 & 4: low 2 storeys with attic dormers, 2-window range. Paired inner doors with plain wood lintels (nailed over stone?). Inserted C19 shop windows each side, with traces of an earlier opening visible below right-hand window. Upper windows renewed in earlier openings, and 2 dormers in the roof. End wall stacks. INTERIOR: No.2 is also cruck-framed in gable wall, with timber-framing in square panels to internal wall separating through passage to right. Brick externally (probably C18). Stairs in angle with fireplace. Nos 3 & 4 cruck-framed internally (1 cruck truss partially exposed in right-hand gable wall, a second cruck truss in the dividing wall between the 2 units).

Listing NGR: SJ9826256617

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Legacy System number:
461618
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.

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