Description

STAFFORD

SJ9123 TENTERBANKS STREET
590-1/5/137 Stafford College: Tenterbanks
Buildings

II

College. c1937; interior completed 1946. Red-brown brick with
stone dressings and parapeted roof. Late classical style with
rusticated ground floor, rusticated pilaster panels at
intervals, moulded panel between floors and deep cornice and
blocking course.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, the centre breaking forward as a
frontespiece as do the ends of the main facade. 19-window
range of 10/10 and 8/8 sashes with curved stone heads to some
at intervals along the ground floor. Central doorway with
recessed section above having attached column either side.
Flat crowning feature above formed of low recessing sections.
To right a corner feature links to a similar facade to
Victoria Road Curved on ground floor with balustrade and flat
wall above having tall arched opening with tripartite windows
on both floors. Crowning feature with urns.
HISTORY: the shell of the building was completed in 1937,
after which it was used as an American army hospital during
the war, then completed afterwards.

Listing NGR: SJ9196223101

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26507789

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