Glebe Hotel, Stoke

The Glebe, Stoke
behind is the civic centre

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Public House. Early 19th Century.

Painted stucco with Welsh slate roof, hipped to left and stucco ridge and end stacks, in part truncated. Corner site. 3 storeys. 3-window range of cross windows in moulded stucco frames with pediments. 2-light casements in stucco frames to second floor.

On the ground floor a central doorway with 3-light window to the left and 4-light window to the right. These windows have arched heads to the lights with leaded glazing and fine stained glass roundels with Morris/Burne-Jones style profile heads within them and slender colonettes dividing them. Moulded pilasters either side.

 Front to Aqueduct Street has similar fenestration (no pediments to the first floor) with similar 3-light arched-head window on ground floor to the right and doorway and further window to the left. On the canted corner a doorway with cross window with curved pediment on the first floor and 2-light casement on the second floor. Stucco quoins to either side. Moulded cornice on both fronts at eaves level. 2-storey wings to the rear.

One of a significant group of buildings including the Town Hall.

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Aqueduct Street with the Glebe Hotel on the corner

 On the left is the side of the old Stoke Town Hall, on the right is the Glebe public house and hotel. In the centre is the entrance to the Civic Centre which is connected to the Town Hall.

Once upon a time Aqueduct Street ran from Glebe Street to an aqueduct which carried the Newcastle-under-Lyme canal, this canal (long since closed, filled in and built over) ran from Newcastle, through Stoke (past Minton's and Spode's factories) and joined the Trent and Mersey Canal at the top of Glebe Street.

 

Photos: Steve Birks   2000

 

on Glebe Street

on Stoke Town Hall

 

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