Eastgate House (Registrar'S Office, Part)

STAFFORD

SJ9223SW EASTGATE STREET 590-1/10/17 (South West side) 16/01/51 No.78 Eastgate House (Registrar's Office, part) (Formerly Listed as: EASTGATE STREET (South side) No.79)

GV II*

Formerly known as: Chief Contstable's Office EASTGATE STREET. House, now registrar's office. 1683, for General John Dolphin; refronted early C18 and late C19 rear wing. Georgian style. Brick with ashlar dressings; internally timber-framed cross walls flanking central bay; tile half-hipped roof with brick stack to rear of ridge. PLAN: double-depth plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic; symmetrical 7-window range. Plaster plinth, platt band over ground floor and top modillioned cornice; quoins. Entrance has Tuscan aedicule and 6-fielded-panelled door, steps flanked by cast-iron brackets. Windows have sills, and rubbed brick flat arches with keys, of console form over 2-pane horned sashes to ground floor and with enriched panels to 1st floor over 12-pane sashes, central key has date: 16/83; 3 pedimented dormers with casements with leaded glazing. Rear has gabled wings flanking short hipped stair wing, that to right with canted bay with shaped parapet, that to left is 4-window range, large windows. INTERIOR: hall has panelling; left-hand ground floor room has oak bolection moulded panelling and bolection surround fireplace; open-well stair has cut string, newels with pendants, spiral balusters and ramped handrail; attic has barrel vaulted plaster ceiling. HISTORY: used from c1891 as home of Chief Constable for Staffordshire, letter flap remains. (Raven M: Staffordshire and the Black Country: 1988-: 291).

Listing NGR: SJ9231323268