Former Town Hall, National Westminster Bank and shops
Former Town Hall, National Westminster Bank and shops, High Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1290967
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Former Town Hall, National Westminster Bank and shops
- Statutory Address:
- Former Town Hall, National Westminster Bank and shops, High Street
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1290967
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-1989
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Mar-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Former Town Hall, National Westminster Bank and shops
- Statutory Address 1:
- Former Town Hall, National Westminster Bank and shops, High 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.
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:
- Former Town Hall, National Westminster Bank and shops, High Street
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Stoke-on-Trent (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 86021 51252
Details
SJ 85 SE
613-1/2/163
STOKE ON TRENT
TUNSTALL
High Street (east side)
Former Town Hall, National Westminster Bank and shops
(Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET, Tunstall (East side) Fmr Town Hall & Public Market & Nat W. Bank, Co-op Travel, RK Bailey & Naylor's)
18/05/89
GV
II
Town Hall and shops. 1883. By Absalom M Wood. Ashlar faced with plain tiled roofs with ridge cresting. Neo-Renaissance style.
Main range of two storeys and five bays, the central bay advanced. Channelled ashlar to ground floor with shallow arches over shop fronts (some altered), and central doorway with paired console brackets carrying balcony over. Upper section divided by brick pilasters, the windows have stone moulded mullions and transoms with round-arched heads. Terracotta balustrading and frieze, stone pediments over outer bays, with heavy console brackets. In the entablature are inscribed: "Peace, Happiness, Truth, Justice AD MDCCCLXXXV". Over the central bay, a raised double pediment, the lower section raised on Mannerist urn-like pilasters, and cut by a higher segmental pediment. Recessed outer sections of two bays with paired lights in ashlar lower storey and oriel bay windows over with foliate swags and steep pediments with Mannerist decoration. Brick parapet eaves cornice with stone dressings. Similar decorative detailing carried round return to Butterfield Place.
INTERIOR has central single flight and two flight return stone staircase with a three-light boarded window. Central hall has fluted pilasters with composite capitals, east and west galleries with elaborate iron balustrades. Former courtroom and council chamber retain their plaster ceilings and doorcases.
The building was formerly the Town Hall of Tunstall, one of the six towns federated together in 1910 to form the city of Stoke-on-Trent.
Listing NGR: SJ8602151252
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 384424
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Stafford, (1963)
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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