Telephone Buildings

SJ 84 NE, 613-1/8/58

STOKE ON TRENT, HANLEY, Trinity Street (south side), Telephone Buildings

II

Former telephone exchange and offices. c1900. Brick and terracotta with plain tiled roof. Eclectic style, with main block of three storeys, and three narrow bays with flanking towers, all vertical spaces elongated. Doorway to right with terracotta scroll and lettering over giving name, "Telephone Buildings". Ornate 6-panelled door with stained glass to overlight in segmentally pedimented head carried on bulbous recessed columns with rusticated surrounds and high bases. Central segmentally-arched window with mullioned and transomed oriel bay over. Balustraded parapet above and three round-arched upper windows. Outer first-floor windows, of two mullioned and transomed lights, have shallow pedimented heads with egg-and-dart decoration. Moulded terracotta architrave to lower left-hand window. Moulded string course and eaves band. Towers have decorative terracotta panels and corbel table and bell-cast tiled roofs and leaded turrets carried on bulbous balusters. Central dormer in roof of three lights with pediment. Wrought-iron balustrading forms ridge cresting. Lower block adjoins to right, two bays, with coped gable and segmentally arched 3-light window. Doorway to right with terracotta moulding and pediment over.

Listing NGR: SJ8808847583