36 And 37, Gaolgate Street

STAFFORD

SJ9223SW GAOLGATE STREET 590-1/10/33 (East side) 17/12/71 Nos.36 AND 37

GV II

Houses, now shops. C17, altered early C18. Stuccoed brick and timber-frame; tile roof. Double-depth plan. Georgian style. EXTERIOR: C20 shopfronts to ground floor, that to left continued to left (No.35A, qv), that to right returned to Salter Street. Platt bands between floors and top modillioned cornice; quoin strips. 1st floor has windows with sashes, 3 to left are taller, cutting platt band, with 4-pane horned sashes, 2 plate glass sashes to right; 2nd floor has 4-paned horned sashes. 2-window return to Salter Street. Rear has 2 gabled wings. INTERIOR: dragon beam and bresummers survive above ground floor ceiling. No.36 has 1st-floor front room with panelling, some early C17 with moulded rails and stiles, some C18 with square panels; some fluted and cabled pilasters with enriched heads, probably C17; plaster cornice. No.37 has open well stair with square newels, column-on-vase balusters boarded in or removed. (County Planning Department: Photographs in County Council collection).

Listing NGR: SJ9216823395