Gothic Cottage and attached wall

Gothic Cottage and attached wall, White Lion Street, Stafford, ST17 4BW

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1289608
Date first listed:: 16-Feb-1994
List Entry Name:: Gothic Cottage and attached wall
Statutory Address:: Gothic Cottage and attached wall, White Lion Street, Stafford, ST17 4BW

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1289608
Date first listed:: 16-Feb-1994
List Entry Name:: Gothic Cottage and attached wall
Statutory Address 1:: Gothic Cottage and attached wall, White Lion Street, Stafford, ST17 4BW

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Gothic Cottage and attached wall, White Lion Street, Stafford, ST17 4BW

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:: SJ9245822827

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 4 April 2025 to update the Address and reformat the text to current standards

SJ9222NW 590-1/11/53

STAFFORD WHITE LION STREET Gothic Cottage and attached wall

(Formerly listed as LICHFIELD ROAD (South West side) No.132 Gothic Cottage and attached wall)

GV II

House, now shops and office. 1840-2. Brick with ashlar dressings, mostly painted; fishscale tile roof with brick stacks. L-plan. Tudor style.

EXTERIOR: two storeys; two-window range, left half breaks forward under gable. Plain plaster plinth; wide eaves and verges with decorative bargeboards. Ground floor has rectangular oriel to left on enriched brackets, with four-light mullioned and transomed window replaced by C20 plate glass; projecting window to right, originally of three lights, now with C20 plate glass. First floor has three-light projecting window and similar two-light window in gabled half-dormer. Right end stack with diagonal shafts.

Left return to Red Lion Street has left end projecting under gable and projecting lateral stack with diagonal shafts to right. Central entrance has four-centred head in square-headed surround with carved spandrels and brattishing. Three-light window to each floor to left of entrance and similar light above. Ashlar panel with shield to stack.

Rear has small two-storey wing, small yard, and boundary wall with entrance.

HISTORY: built on the site of the workhouse for Castlechurch parish.

(Victoria County History of Staffordshire: Greenslade MW: A History of Stafford (from VCH): London: 1979-: 231).

Listing NGR: SJ9245822827

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

Legacy System number:: 383998
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Stafford, (1979), 231

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.