The Colonnade Tudor House

STAFFORD

SJ9223SW EASTGATE STREET 590-1/10/11 (North East side) No.9 The Colonnade and Tudor House

GV II

House, now 5 shops. Probably C17 with late C19 alterations; dated 1560. Brick with some square-panel timber-framing; tile roof with brick stacks. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic; 3-window range. Ground floor has 2 shopfronts with bay window to left and fascia over; left end entry with studded inner door in 2-storey gabled porch; 1st floor has timber-framing to jettied porch, with small-paned casements to 3 sides; 2 projecting 3-light casement windows to right; attic has 2 windows in timber-framed gables. Plastered end stack. Rear has gabled wing; right return has exposed timber-framing to 1st floor and, possibly, plastered wall posts to lower addition; inner return has C20 shopfronts; cross-casement to 1st floor and riven rafters; end chequer brick gable. INTERIOR: ground floor has ovolo-moulded beams and some C17 panelling to front shop; records of vacant 1st floor mention more panelling, some with round-headed panels, and stone fireplace; roof with collar trusses with tie beams and queen struts and wind braces; timber-framed gable end with triple diagonal braces. (County Photograph Collection; County Planning Department: County Sites & Monuments Record).

Listing NGR: SJ9234323289