DETENTION BLOCK SOUTH OF CENTRAL BLOCK, HM PRISON

DETENTION BLOCK SOUTH OF CENTRAL BLOCK, HM PRISON, GAOL ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1298150
Date first listed:: 17-Dec-1971
List Entry Name:: DETENTION BLOCK SOUTH OF CENTRAL BLOCK, HM PRISON
Statutory Address:: DETENTION BLOCK SOUTH OF CENTRAL BLOCK, HM PRISON, GAOL ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1298150
Date first listed:: 17-Dec-1971
List Entry Name:: DETENTION BLOCK SOUTH OF CENTRAL BLOCK, HM PRISON
Statutory Address 1:: DETENTION BLOCK SOUTH OF CENTRAL BLOCK, HM PRISON, GAOL ROAD

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.

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

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: DETENTION BLOCK SOUTH OF CENTRAL BLOCK, HM PRISON, GAOL ROAD

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 92175 23734

Details

STAFFORD

SJ9223NW GAOL ROAD 590-1/9/28 (East side) 17/12/71 Detention block south of Central block, H.M. Prison

GV II

Detention block. c1840. By Joseph Potter Jnr. Brick with ashlar dressings; slate roof. T-plan. 3-storeys; symmetrical range. Modillioned brick eaves. Central entrance. Tall 3-light pointed windows above entrance have moulded arches and cast-iron casements; windows to cells altered at a later date. Massive air shafts with panelled sides. Central octagonal lantern with cast-iron lights. (Victoria County History of Staffordshire: Greenslade MW: A History of Stafford, taken from VCH: London: 1979-: 204-5).

Listing NGR: SJ9217523734

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 383970
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Stafford, (1979), 204-5

Legal

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