Numbers 2, 3 and 4 Gaunt Buildings

NUMBERS 2, 3 AND 4 GAUNT BUILDINGS, DERBY STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1268623
Date first listed:
30-Jun-1986
List Entry Name:
Numbers 2, 3 and 4 Gaunt Buildings
Statutory Address:
NUMBERS 2, 3 AND 4 GAUNT BUILDINGS, DERBY STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1268623
Date first listed:
30-Jun-1986
List Entry Name:
Numbers 2, 3 and 4 Gaunt Buildings
Statutory Address 1:
NUMBERS 2, 3 AND 4 GAUNT BUILDINGS, DERBY 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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Corrections and minor amendments

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:
NUMBERS 2, 3 AND 4 GAUNT BUILDINGS, DERBY 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:
SJ9849956516

Details

SJ9856NW
611-1/4/53
30/06/86

LEEK
DERBY STREET
(North side)
Nos.2, 3 AND 4 Gaunt Buildings

GV
II

House, now divided with shops on ground floor, flats above.
Early C19, extended on ground floor with shop front, c1900,
built together with flanking buildings (which are not included
in this list). Brick with slate roof.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 5-window range. Projecting shop fronts
largely rebuilt late C20, but iron brattishing of earlier shop
front development survives. 2-pane sash windows with
flat-arched gauged brick heads above, the central first-floor
window set in segmentally-arched recess.
Rear elevation has central entrance giving access to upper
floors: stone Doric architrave to doorway, and central windows
above in round-arched recess. Small 2-storeyed late C19 canted
wing to right, with stone architrave to Venetian windows
(blocked on ground floor).
INTERIOR: stair hall with stone spiral staircase with
cast-iron balustrade.

Listing NGR: SJ9849956516

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
461628
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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