Convent of St Joseph

CONVENT OF ST JOSEPH, BANK STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1374679
Date first listed:
08-Aug-1986
List Entry Name:
Convent of St Joseph
Statutory Address:
CONVENT OF ST JOSEPH, BANK STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1374679
Date first listed:
08-Aug-1986
List Entry Name:
Convent of St Joseph
Statutory Address 1:
CONVENT OF ST JOSEPH, BANK 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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CONVENT OF ST JOSEPH, BANK STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Staffordshire
District:
Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
Parish:
Cheadle
National Grid Reference:
SK 00793 43172

Details

SK 0043-0143 CHEADLE C.P. BANK STREET (South side)

11/30 Convent of St. Joseph

GV II

Convent. A late C18 domestic building altered and considerably extended by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin circa 1845. Red brick with stone dressings; tiled roofs, banded and with crested verge parapets to Pugin's additions. In three distinct parts, a U-shaped building around an inner courtyard fronted to the street and churchyard. On the west side of the street frontage the C18 building of 3 storeys and two windows; glazing bar sashes with painted wedged heads; the top floor has half-dormer gablets over large pane sashes. Attached to the east and fronting church and street, a single-storey range by Pugin; blind to the street except for a stone dressed Tudor arch door to the right; the projecting gabled east return has a labelled pointed 2-light window continuing into a long blind range flanking the churchyard. Facing east into the courtyard is a two-storey, four-window range by Pugin, attached to the street front by a tall square steeply gabled tower.

Listing NGR: SK0079343171

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
274832
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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