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North Stafford Hotel, Winton Square, Station Road
North Stafford Hotel, Winton Square, Station Road
pen drawing by Neville Malkin - May 1974

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Listed Buildings in Stoke-on-Trent and area

North Stafford Hotel, Winton Square, Stoke


Area
Stoke
Street
Winton Square
Heritage No.
150a
Grade
II*
Date Listed
19 April 1972
Building: North Stafford Hotel
Location: STOKE ON TRENT SJ84NE WINTON SQUARE, Stoke
Description:  Elizabethan & Jacobean in style. Constructed as an integral part of the building of Stoke Station.


The Elizabethian / Jacobean style North Stafford Hotel
The Elizabethian / Jacobean style North Stafford Hotel
and Stoke Station opposite, are described by Pevsner as
'the finest piece of Victorian axial planning in the county'.


1847 by H. A. Hunt, brick with plain and patterned tile roofs

Hotel. Begun in 1847 by H.A. Hunt.

Elizabethan & Jacobean in style. Constructed as an integral part of the building of Stoke Station.
Brick with stone dressings, plain tiled roofs. 3-storeyed with attics, 7 bays. Ornate Dutch gables over outer and central bays. Outer bays have a tier of mullioned windows (5 lights and a transom to ground floor, 2 to attic storey).

The ground floor windows are squared section bays with fretted parapets, and first floor windows are surmounted by strapwork decoration. Central advanced bay forms full-height porch with round arched doorway with margin lights flanked by shafts with marked entasis.
Parapet over doors, and mullioned windows above with strapwork decoration.

Intermediate bays have 3 light mullioned windows with transoms to ground floor, and attic dormers set behind eaves parapet. Axial stacks.
 



Statue of Josiah Wedgwood I stands in front of the hotel
Statue of Josiah Wedgwood I stands in front of the hotel



The hotel has a relief coat of arms contained within a roundel on the second storey facade, the shield is charged with a castle, a lion and two Stafford Knots, the surround is ornate.
 


on the North Stafford Hotel

 


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