8, Market Square

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SJ9223SW 590-1/10/65

STAFFORD MARKET SQUARE (south side) No. 8

[Formerly listed as Midland Bank, No. 8, MARKET SQUARE (South side)]

17/12/71

GV II

Includes: No.1 GREENGATE STREET.

Bank. c1810 with 1890s addition. Ashlar and brick with ashlar dressings; tile roofs with brick end stacks. Double-depth plan. Georgian style.

EXTERIOR: three storeys; three-window range. Cornice over ground floor, second floor sill band and wide eaves. Ground floor has 1890s polished granite facing; end piers with brackets and one to right of entrance to left end, which has paired panelled doors; windows divided by Ionic pilaster; treatment continued to addition. First floor has large windows with 16-pane horned sashes; second floor has windows with 4/8-pane sashes.

Addition in Flemish Renaissance style. Curved corner entrance bay has flanking three-window gabled ranges. First floor cornice and top cornice and Dutch gables with flanking finials. Ground floor as above. First floor has brick piers with festoon capitals flanking three-light transomed windows with cornices and elliptical tympana with banded voussoirs and rich ashlar relief panels with cartouches, some with masks, and scroll work; similar second floor has three-light windows with leaded upper lights and top friezes, but corner has smaller three-light window with leaded glazing; rich ashlar relief panel over cornice has mask and flanking beasts, swept cornice with heraldic lion finial; gables have lunettes with banded voussoirs and leaded glazing, pilasters to segmental pediments with rich relief work and enriched flanking triangular panels.

Listing NGR: SJ9220023100