Description

STAFFORD

SJ9223SW GREENGATE STREET
590-1/10/45 (West side)
16/01/51 Nos.39, 39A AND 40
(Formerly Listed as:
GREENGATE STREET
(West side)
Nos.39 AND 40)

GV II

Two houses, now shop and office. Mid C18 with early C19 and
later alterations. Brick with ashlar dressings; tile roof with
coped gable and brick end and cross-axial stack. Early
Georgian style.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic; 9-window range. Platt band
over ground floor and top cornice; quoins. 2 early C20
shopfronts; round-headed entrance to right end has early C19
doorcase with archivolt, pilaster strips, frieze and pediment;
fanlight over 6-panel door. 1st floor has windows with rubbed
brick flat arches and ashlar keys over 9/6-pane sashes in
moulded frames to 5 windows to left, 4 windows to right have
2-panel horned sashes; 3rd window from each end has eared and
shouldered architrave with key and moulded sill on blocks; 4
pedimented dormers with small-paned casements. 2 rainwater
heads with cherubs in round arches, and square downspouts to
1st floor only. Rear has gabled wing and early C19 gabled
range to left, with 2 gables to end with windows in
architraves, friezes and pediments; return has windows with
small-paned casements with intersecting glazing bars.
INTERIOR: 1820s detailing; stair with slender balusters and
wreathed handrail; room to rear with rich plaster cornice and
marble fireplace; 2 lamp brackets to 1st floor corridor; left
end has early C18 open well stair to 1st floor up, with spiral
balusters, moulded and ramped handrail, cut string with
moulded tread ends and bolection-moulded dado panelling; 3
contemporary 6-fielded-panel doors. Ground floor originally
had 2 entrances with eared architraves and signs remain of
keys to windows.
(County Planning Department Photographic Collection).

Listing NGR: SJ9222823120

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26507118

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Recommended Books

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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas