Registrar's Office (Part) is a Grade II listed building in the Stafford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 1994. Government.

Registrar's Office (Part)

WRENN ID
hushed-threshold-equinox
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Stafford
Constituency
Stafford MP: Leigh Ingham (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 February 1994
Type
Government
Address
Registrar's Office (Part), 79a, Eastgate Street
OS grid reference
SJ 923 232
Coordinates
52.80703, -2.11534
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The building is the Superintendent's House, now part of the registrar's office, constructed in 1893 in a Free Tudor style. It is made of brick with ashlar dressings and features a graduated slate roof with brick end stacks. The building has a double-depth plan and is two storeys high with an attic, presenting a symmetrical three-window range on the front facade.

The exterior includes an ashlar plinth, flush bands at the ground floor, and a top cornice. The entrance features a four-centred arch leading to a recessed porch with a key, foliate spandrels, and a dripstone above a panel with a dated cartouche and flanking scrolls. There are low paired iron gates, and the inner entrance has a segmental-headed design with a half-glazed door and a wall lantern. To the left, there are two 2-light basement windows with grilles.

On the ground floor, recessed bow windows are flanked by fluted pilasters between ovolo-moulded cross-mullioned windows, all with dripstones. The first floor has a cross-mullioned window with a keyed architrave and cornice, positioned between two sets of 2+2-light transomed windows with a king mullion. The attic features a small 2-light flat-roofed dormer situated between hipped dormers with canted angles, all of which have ovolo-mullioned designs with leaded glazing. Scrolled wrought-iron gutter brackets and rainwater heads with a date and square downspouts are also present. At the rear, there is a gabled wing.

Inside, the building contains eight-panel doors and a staircase with square balusters.

Local climate

Registrar's Office (Part) receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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