Stone Town Council Offices is a Grade II listed building in the Stafford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 July 1972. Council office. 4 related planning applications.

Stone Town Council Offices

WRENN ID
shadowed-terrace-amber
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Stafford
Constituency
Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge MP: Sir Gavin Williamson (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 July 1972
Type
Council office
Address
Stone Town Council Offices, 15, Station Road, ST15 8JP
OS grid reference
SJ 900 340
Coordinates
52.90362, -2.1491
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Stone Town Council Offices, formerly known as Station Road No.15 (Stone Rural District Offices), is a council office building dating from around 1810. It is constructed of brick with ashlar dressings and features a hipped tile roof with a brick cross-axial stack. The building has a double-depth plan and is designed in the Georgian style, standing two storeys tall with a five-window range and a projecting right end.

Notable architectural features include a plaster plinth, a first-floor sill band, and modillioned brick eaves. The round-headed entrance is framed by a doorcase with fluted pilasters, blocks with paterae, and an open pediment, topped with a fanlight that has radial glazing bars above an eight-panel door. The windows are fitted with rubbed brick flat arches over twelve-pane sashes, though the window to the left of the entrance and two windows on the first floor are blind. To the right, there is a small single-storey wing with an attic; the ground floor has tripartite sashes, while the first floor features four-pane sashes in flat-topped half-dormers.

At the rear, the building has canted bays flanking another round-headed entrance. Inside, there is an open-well stair to the rear with stick balusters, and some doorcases and cornices are present in the ground floor rooms. This building was also the family home of John Masefield O.M., who was the poet laureate from 1930 to 1967.

Local climate

Stone Town Council Offices receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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