Eastgate House (Registrar'S Office, Part)

Eastgate House, part of the registrar's office, is a former house built in 1683 for General John Dolphin. It was originally known as the Chief Constable's Office. The building features a Georgian style and has undergone refronting in the early 18th century and modifications to the late 19th-century rear wing. Constructed of brick with ashlar dressings, it has timber-framed cross walls flanking a central bay and a tile half-hipped roof with a brick stack at the rear of the ridge.

The exterior is two storeys high with an attic and presents a symmetrical seven-window range. It has a plaster plinth, a platt band over the ground floor, and a top modillioned cornice, with quoins at the corners. The entrance features a Tuscan aedicule and a six-fielded-panelled door, with steps flanked by cast-iron brackets. The windows have sills and rubbed brick flat arches with keys, displaying console forms over two-pane horned sashes on the ground floor and enriched panels above twelve-pane sashes on the first floor. The central key is dated 1683. The roof has three pedimented dormers with casements that include leaded glazing.

At the rear, there are gabled wings flanking a short hipped stair wing; the right wing has a canted bay with a shaped parapet, while the left wing features a four-window range with large windows. Inside, the hall is paneled, and the left-hand ground floor room has oak bolection moulded panelling and a bolection surround fireplace. The open-well stair has a cut string, newels with pendants, spiral balusters, and a ramped handrail. The attic boasts a barrel vaulted plaster ceiling. Since 1891, the building has served as the home of the Chief Constable for Staffordshire, and a letter flap remains as a historical feature.