Stafford Arms Public House And St Chad'S House

BAGNALL

1798/4/8 THE GREEN 15-DEC-1986 BAGNALL (West side) Stafford Arms Public House and St Chad's House (Formerly listed as: BAGNALL STAFFORD ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE (3 UNITS))

GV II

Group of 3 cottages, now public house and house. C17, altered mid-C19. Coursed and squared stone; machine tile roofs with verge parapets to each unit; ridge stack to left and end stacks to right. 2-storey frontage. Left-hand unit: of 3 windows; casements, widely-spaced to right, boarded door to left of centre with pent porch; blocked entrance to right, now a window. Centre: 2-window range; C19 three-light chamfered mullioned windows, 2 ground-floor windows are offset to right, C19 single-storey gabled porch offset to left, 3-sided front with single-light windows to diagonal sides and Tudor-arch central entrance and boarded door. The roof has an unusual mock-medieval smoke vent to the left. Right (St Chad's House): slightly taller than the remainder, a 4- and 3-light chamfered mullioned window to the first floor, the larger left-hand window has a gabled coat-of-arms below the cill, large 3-sided single-storey bay window to the right side of the ground floor, chamfered mullion and transom windows and solid stone-block, ogee-shaped pitched roof; hipped porch on stone brackets (reminiscent of the work of G.E. Street), boarded door. 3-storey side elevation facing the church (q.v.), has C18 plank door in shouldered architrave and adjoining 2-light stone-mullioned window; 2-light round-arched window above with chamfered mullions and transoms. The group forms the focus of the village green.