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Winton Square
Houses
in Winton Square
Winton Square
Shelton, Stoke
Stoke Railway Station and the North Stafford Hotel face each other across Winton Square.
The other two sides of the square originally contained six houses - three on each side. They were built at a cost of £6,272 again to the design of H A Hunt, matching in materials and style the station and hotel. The six houses were built to accommodate senior railway officials and in the second half of the 19th century were very desirable residences - located near the place of work, with the use of the facilities at the hotel, and with large gardens and fields at the rear.
location of the houses on a 1898 OS map
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House No 2 was first occupied by Charles Cooper,
coach superintendent.
- photo Dec 2007 -
The largest garden was attached to house No 3 and for over forty years this was the home of the chief engineer. The first resident was John Curphey Forsyth, engineer from 1845 to 1853 at a salary of £650 p.a., and then general manager until 1863, salary £850 p.a. His successors were Thomas Dodd, William Stubbs, James Dawson and John Price.
The other houses were let to other officers. In 1892 the railway company let two of the houses out to non-company residents: No 4 to James Marshall, a solicitor, and No 6 to Samuel Barker. By 1903 No 3 had been turned into the Canal Engineer's office. By then the square was no longer a very desirable place of residence. The fields at the back had been covered with new streets and houses while the gardens next to No 4-6 were gradually reduced as the Post Office expanded its operations on the site at the corner of Station Road and Leek Road.
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Sources:
Victoria History of the County of Stafford, Vol VIII
Andrew Dobraszczyc notes
Census 1851,61,71,81,91
the
houses in Winton Square are listed buildings
