Description

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SJ9222NW
590-1/11/53

STAFFORD
WHITE LION STREET
Gothic Cottage and attached wall

(Formerly listed as LICHFIELD ROAD (South West side) No.132 Gothic Cottage and attached wall)

GV
II

House, now shops and office. 1840-2. Brick with ashlar dressings, mostly painted; fishscale tile roof with brick stacks. L-plan. Tudor style.

EXTERIOR: two storeys; two-window range, left half breaks forward under gable. Plain plaster plinth; wide eaves and verges with decorative bargeboards. Ground floor has rectangular oriel to left on enriched brackets, with four-light mullioned and transomed window replaced by C20 plate glass; projecting window to right, originally of three lights, now with C20 plate glass. First floor has three-light projecting window and similar two-light window in gabled half-dormer. Right end stack with diagonal shafts.

Left return to Red Lion Street has left end projecting under gable and projecting lateral stack with diagonal shafts to right. Central entrance has four-centred head in square-headed surround with carved spandrels and brattishing. Three-light window to each floor to left of entrance and similar light above. Ashlar panel with shield to stack.

Rear has small two-storey wing, small yard, and boundary wall with entrance.

HISTORY: built on the site of the workhouse for Castlechurch parish.

(Victoria County History of Staffordshire: Greenslade MW: A History of Stafford (from VCH): London: 1979-: 231).

Listing NGR: SJ9245822827

External Links

• Wikidata Q26577909

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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings