Borough Hall

STAFFORD

SJ9223SW EASTGATE STREET 590-1/10/19 (South West side) 17/12/71 Borough Hall

GV II

Borough hall, now theatre. 1877 with later C19 addition. French Gothic style. By Henry Ward of Stafford Brick with ashlar dressings; slate roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; symmetrical 9-window range. Ground floor of rock-faced stone with frieze of shields above, brick diapering over 1st floor windows and top modillioned ashlar cornice and parapet; centre breaks forward under coped gable, flanking gablets. Entrance of 2 orders has polished marble shafts and C20 inserted canopy over paired panelled doors. Ground floor has 7 windows to each side in rhythmical arrangement of large and small arches, piers with nook shafts, weathered sills and continuous hood moulds; end entrances; 1st floor has central 4-light plate tracery window with red sandstone shafts, canted balcony on moulded base has arcading, other windows of 2 lights, foliate impost bands. Roundels over 1st floor windows, round shafts to ends and gabled centre are corbelled from impost level; gable has 2 quatrefoils with projecting heads and wheel window set in diapered band, similar wheel windows to gablets. Addition to left of 2 storeys; 3-window range. Ashlar plinth, terracotta dressings, 2 string courses and 1st floor impost course, and top modillioned cornice and parapet with blind roundels. Ground floor has windows with 4-centred heads, originally of 3 lights with ovolo mullions, now with tripartite pointed sashes; 1st floor has windows of 3 pointed lights with transoms and enriched aprons, and tympanums with enriched panels; diapering over windows with 2 profile medallions; roof has iron cresting and skylights. INTERIOR: much altered but retaining staircase to rear of hall. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire: London: 1974-: P.244).

Listing NGR: SJ9228023300