Registrar'S Office (Part)

STAFFORD

SJ9223SW EASTGATE STREET 590-1/10/18 (South West side) No.78A Registrar's Office (part)

GV II

Superintendent's House, now part of registrar's office. 1893. Free Tudor style. Brick with ashlar dressings; graduated slate roof with brick end stacks. Double-depth plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic; symmetrical 3-window range. Ashlar plinth, flush bands to ground floor, and top cornice. Entrance has 4-centred arch to recessed porch with key, foliate spandrels, dripstone raised over panel with dated cartouche and flanking scrolls, low paired iron gates; inner segmental-headed entrance with half-glazed door and wall lantern to inner return. Two 2-light basement windows with grilles to left. Ground floor has recessed bow windows with fluted pilasters between ovolo-moulded cross-mullioned windows, dripstones; 1st floor has cross-mullioned window with keyed architrave and cornice between 2+2-light transomed windows with king mullion; attic has small 2-light flat-roofed dormer between hipped dormers with canted angles; all ovolo-mullioned with leaded glazing. Scrolled wrought-iron gutter brackets; rainwater heads with date and square downspouts. Gabled rear wing. INTERIOR: 8-panel doors and stair with square balusters. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire: London: 1974-: 244).

Listing NGR: SJ9232223280