35, Stafford Street

SJ 6634-6734 13/88 7.5.52

MARKET DRAYTON C.P. STAFFORD STREET (north-west side) No. 35 (Formerly listed as No 35 (Stafford House))

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House, now offices. Early C19, incorporating C17 core. Red brick with some painted stone dressings. Plain tile roof. 2-cell baffle- entry plan. 2 storeys and gable-lit attic over basement. Toothed- brick eaves cornice. Central brick ridge stack consisting of 2 shafts flanking central lower part (probably truncated). with 3 round- arched panels. 1:1:1 bays, central break with painted shaped stone kneelers and parapeted gable with stone coping; glazing bar sashes (tripartite to outer bays) with painted stone cills and lintels. Central 4-panelled door (lower 2 flush) with rectangular overlight and painted stone Tuscan porch with frieze, moulded cornice and cast- iron balcony above. Interior only partly inspected. Pairs of C17 ovolo-moulded ceiling beams with ogee stops. Early C19 four-panelled doors with moulded architraves and internal panelled window shutters. The house appears to be a C17 two-cell baffle-entry building much rebuilt in the early C19.

Listing NGR: SJ6765434296