Drayton Road Cottages
Drayton Road Cottages, Drayton Road, Hanchurch, Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 8SN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1272556
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jan-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Drayton Road Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- Drayton Road Cottages, Drayton Road, Hanchurch, Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 8SN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1272556
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jan-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Drayton Road Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- Drayton Road Cottages, Drayton Road, Hanchurch, Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 8SN
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.
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:
- Drayton Road Cottages, Drayton Road, Hanchurch, Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 8SN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Stafford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Swynnerton
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 84536 40200
Details
SJ 84 SW
953/1/10022
SWYNNERTON
DRAYTON ROAD
Drayton Road Cottages
II
Pair of Trentham estate cottages. Circa 1860; by George Devey, for the Duke of Sutherland. English garden wall bond red brick, stone, plaster, tile-hanging and timber-framing with plaster panels, Clay plain tile roofs with deep eaves and verges with bargeboards. Brick axial stack with diagonally-set shafts and gable-end stack with stone base, brick shaft and set-offs with brick tumbling-in.
PLAN: Pair of cottages, L-shaped on plan with cross-wing on right extending to the rear and single-storey service range behind the left end. Vernacular Revival style.
EXTERIOR: single storey and attic. Asymmetrical front with large jettied timber-framed gable on right, supported on large curved brackets and with herring-bone pattern framing at the apex, seven-light window on ground floor and five-light attic window; to left three and one-light windows in cambered brick openings and plastered gabled dormer above; all leaded-pane casements; doorway to left of centre with open porch with gabled canopy on timber posts. The left corner has stone quoins only part way up. The left gable-end is brick, plastered and tile-hung and has large stack to left with round oven at the base with tiled conical roof. The rear has large timber-framed cross-wing gable on left, smaller brick gable and single-storey service wing on right and plastered gabled dormer at centre.
INTERIOR not inspected.
Drayton Road Cottages are a good example of the Vernacular Revival style of George Devey.
Listing NGR: SJ8453640200
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 448824
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 38 Staffordshire,
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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