10, DERBY STREET

10, DERBY STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1268624
Date first listed:
13-Apr-1951
List Entry Name:
10, DERBY STREET
Statutory Address:
10, DERBY STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1268624
Date first listed:
13-Apr-1951
List Entry Name:
10, DERBY STREET
Statutory Address 1:
10, DERBY 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.

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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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Location

Statutory Address:
10, 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:
SJ 98438 56496

Details

LEEK

SJ9856SW DERBY STREET 611-1/6/54 (South side) 13/04/51 No.10

GV II

House, now solicitors' offices, and reputedly built originally to house offices together with domestic accommodation, later extended to include courthouse. Dated 1760. Brick with stone dressings and plain-tiled roof. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 5-window range with advanced central pedimented bay. Doorway with pediment carried on brackets. Date engraved and painted in entablature. Round-arched stressed architrave to upper window with margin lights. 6-pane sash window in attic storey, and tiny bull's-eye window in apex of pediment. Flanking windows are all 12-pane sashes with painted stone cills and flat-arched gauged brick heads with painted stone keys. Moulded stone eaves cornice; end wall and axial stacks. Cast-iron spearhead railings with urn finials on principal posts define small yard to front. Short rear wing to right housing staircase, extended mid C19. Original full-height stair window with central mullion and divided by transoms (wood, but stone mullion and transom in lowest light) into 7 vertical divisions. Small leaded panes. Mid C19 extension beyond houses former courtroom: 2-storeyed, 4-window range, with 16-pane sash windows each side of 2 doorways (left hand doorway giving access to courtroom), and tripartite sash window to ground floor left. Similar 16-pane sash windows to first floor, and one inserted window to right of centre. Single storey extension to right, with round-arched doorway and 16-pane sash window. Openings all with flat stone lintels and cills, but doorway to right of centre in late C20 replica reeded case with lozenge overlight. INTERIOR: layout of original plan survives, with staircase with turned balusters and moulded rail. Some cast-iron fireplaces may also be late C18; fitted furniture associated with office use, late C19 or early C20. Courtroom in rear wing retains bench and dock, and tongue-and-groove wall panelling. It was last used as the magistrates' court in the 1950s.

Listing NGR: SJ9843856496

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Legacy System number:
461629
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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