50, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Stafford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 1949. Office.
50, High Street
- WRENN ID
- inner-loft-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stafford
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 March 1949
- Type
- Office
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 50 High Street is a building dating from around 1780, originally serving as an office for Joule's Brewery and now functioning as offices and a shop. It is constructed of brick with ashlar dressings and features a hipped slate roof with brick stacks. The building has a double-depth plan and is designed in the Georgian style, standing three storeys tall.
The façade is symmetrical with a three-window range, while a two-window range projects forward to the right. It has an ashlar plinth and bands at the first and second floor levels, topped with a modillioned cornice. The ground floor is plastered and includes a round-headed entrance with a Tuscan porch, flanked by wrought iron side panels and a fanlight featuring decorative glazing bars above a six-panel door. The modillioned cornice continues over the flanking bowed windows, which are fitted with 8:12:8-pane tripartite sashes.
To the right, there is a range with a blocked round-headed entrance on the left end and another round-headed entrance on the right end, which has a doorcase with reeded pilasters and an open pediment. This entrance also features a fanlight with decorative glazing bars above a six-panel door, previously associated with No. 52. The ground floor includes two windows with sills and rubbed brick flat arches over 12-pane sashes. The upper floors have windows with rubbed brick flat arches, featuring 12-pane sashes on the first floor and 20th-century casements on the second floor.
At the rear, there is a gabled wing along with large 20th-century additions. Joule's Brewery was established in the early 18th century and was taken over by Francis Joule in 1785, closing in 1974. Only the 19th-century façade of the brewery remains to the right of the former No. 52.
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