50, High Street

STONE

SJ9033 HIGH STREET, Stone 651-1/7/33 (South West side) 09/03/49 No.50 (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET, Stone (South side) No.52 Joule's Brewery Office)

GV II

Shown on OS map as Nos 50 and 52. Office for Joule's Brewery, now offices and shop. c1780. Brick with ashlar dressings; hipped slate roof with brick stacks. Double-depth plan. Georgian style. 3 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range with 2-window range breaking forward to right. Ashlar plinth and 1st and 2nd floor sill bands; top modillioned cornice. Symmetrical range has plastered ground floor; round-headed entrance has Tuscan porch with wrought iron side panels, fanlight with decorative glazing bars over 6-panel door; modillioned cornice continued over flanking bowed windows, which have sills to 8:12:8-pane tripartite sashes. Range to right has blocked round-headed entrance to left end and round-headed entrance to right end with doorcase with reeded pilasters and open pediment, fanlight with decorative glazing bars over 6-panel door (former No 52); 2 ground floor windows have sills, and rubbed brick flat arches over 12-pane sashes. Upper floors have windows with rubbed brick flat arches, 12-pane sashes to 1st floor, C20 casements to 2nd floor. Rear has gabled wing and large C20 additions. The brewery was founded in the early C18 and was taken over by Francis Joule in 1785; it was closed in 1974. Only the C19 facade of the brewery remains to the right of former No 52. (Thorold H: Staffordshire, A Shell Guide: London: 1978-: 162).

Listing NGR: SJ9015033924