Courts Municipal Offices Victoria Hall
COURTS, ALBERT SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297932
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Courts Municipal Offices Victoria Hall
- Statutory Address:
- COURTS, ALBERT SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297932
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Courts Municipal Offices Victoria Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- COURTS, ALBERT SQUARE
- Statutory Address 2:
- MUNICIPAL OFFICES, ALBERT SQUARE
- Statutory Address 3:
- VICTORIA HALL, ALBION SQUARE
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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:
- COURTS, ALBERT SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- MUNICIPAL OFFICES, ALBERT SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- VICTORIA HALL, ALBION SQUARE
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 88349 47340
Details
STOKE ON TRENT
SJ8847 ALBION SQUARE, Hanley 613-1/8/46 (South East side) 18/05/89 Municipal Offices, Courts and Victoria Hall
GV II
Former town hall, now Municipal Offices and Courts. Originally designed as Queen's Hotel by Robert Scrivener in 1869, converted to a town hall in 1884-8. Red brick with white brick and ashlar dressings, slate roofs with 4 sets of tall brick stacks. 3-storeyed with basement and attic, 9-bay front with projecting central and corner pavilions, these pavilions articulated with rusticated white brick pilasters. Ground, first, and second floor moulded bands, and bracketed entablature. Central doorway has projecting ashlar porch supported on coupled, rusticated columns with carved parapet and ornate iron lamp bracket. Either side are single sash windows, then canted bay windows, then a single further sash, and beyond, Palladian windows. Above a central tripartite sash window with either side a single sash, then a canted bay window and a further single sash, with beyond single tripartite sashes. Above a central tripartite sash flanked by 3 sashes with beyond a single tripartite sash. Above again, a central 2-light dormer topped by segmental pediment, flanked by 3 gabled dormers with beyond, single 2-light dormers topped by segmental pediments. INTERIOR has Council chamber with Victorian fixtures, and Edwardian staircase. No.1 Courtroom is a complete mid Victorian court with all its original fixtures and fittings, panelling, plaster ceiling and galleries, No.3 Courtroom is an almost complete Edwardian Court, D-plan with an ornate plaster vault, pilasters and almost all of its original fixtures and fittings. To rear, and interlinking, is the Victoria Hall. Brick with stone dressings. Facade facing on left side is in Baroque style. 3 storeys and attic. 11-window range, with a central 5-window section breaking forward under a pediment. High base, brick pilasters with channelled rustication and modillion cornice. 2nd floor windows have round-arched heads. Entrances have moulded stone doorcases. Right side (rear of whole complex) is an 11-window range with round-arched windows to 2nd floor and small octagonal lantern on roof. INTERIOR of hall not inspected.
Listing NGR: SJ8834947340
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 384361
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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