Stafford Railway Building Society
STAFFORD RAILWAY BUILDING SOCIETY, 4, MARKET SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1289570
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jan-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Stafford Railway Building Society
- Statutory Address:
- STAFFORD RAILWAY BUILDING SOCIETY, 4, MARKET SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1289570
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jan-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 16-Feb-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Stafford Railway Building Society
- Statutory Address 1:
- STAFFORD RAILWAY BUILDING SOCIETY, 4, MARKET SQUARE
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:
- STAFFORD RAILWAY BUILDING SOCIETY, 4, MARKET SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Stafford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 92202 23343
Details
STAFFORD
SJ9223SW MARKET SQUARE 590-1/10/62 (North side) 16/01/51 No.4 Stafford Railway Building Society (Formerly Listed as: MARKET SQUARE (North side) Old William Salt Library & Premises occ. by Staffs. Exec. Council & HS Shepherd)
GV II
Formerly known as: Old Bank House MARKET PLACE. Office. c1840 with addition of c1870. Brick with ashlar facing; parapeted roof. Classical style. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, single-window range with later 5-window range to left. Channelled rustication to ground floor; 1st and 2nd floor have flanking giant Corinthian pilasters and top frieze and deep cornice. Round-headed entrance to left of round-headed window, both with archivolt and impost course, C20 door and casement. 1st floor has window with eared architrave, consoled cornice with scrolled cresting and casement, flanking inserted narrow windows; 2nd floor has square window with shouldered and eared architrave and small-paned casement. Ground floor has black letter inscription to spandrel: THE WILLIAM SALT LIBRARY/ ESTABLISHED/1872. 5-bay range has channelled rustication to ground floor with acanthus frieze and cornice; shallow balcony with balustrading to 1st floor; top entablature with festoons and balustraded parapet. Segmental-headed carriage entrance to Bank passage to left of centre has enriched spandrels and brackets to wider balcony above; former round-headed entrance to left end has archivolt and impost course and retains fanlight over C20 infill; right end has 2 round-headed windows with glazing over fielded panels. 1st floor has windows with friezes and consoled cornices over 4-pane horned sashes; 2nd floor has windows with 4-pane horned sashes. Carriageway has scrolled iron lamp bracket. Rear has 2 gabled brick 2-storey wings. HISTORY: the William Salt Library was established here in Old Bank House before its transfer to the present library in Eastgate street (qv) in 1918. (Victoria County History of Staffordshire: Greenslade MW: A History of Stafford (from VCH): London: 1979-: 258).
Listing NGR: SJ9220123349
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 384008
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Stafford, (1979), 258
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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