Listed Buildings
in Stoke-on-Trent and area
Telephone Buildings,
Hanley
Area
Hanley |
Street
Trinity Street |
Heritage No.
58 A |
Grade
II |
Date Listed
15 March 1993 |
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Building:
Telephone Building |
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Location:
STOKE ON TRENT SJ84NE TRINITY
STREET, Hanley |
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Description:
FORMER TELEPHONE EXCHANGE, 1900, BRK.
TERRACOTTA, PLAIN TILED |
Telephone
Buildings, Corner Marsh Street & Trinity Street, Hanley
behind is the replacement
telephone building
Former telephone exchange and offices. Circa
1900.
Brick and terracotta with plain tiled roof.
Eclectic style, with main block of 3 storeys, and 3 narrow bays
with flanking towers, all vertical spaces elongated.
Doorway to right with terracotta scroll and
lettering over given name, "Telephone Buildings". Ornate
6-panelled door with stained glass to overlight in segmentally
pedimented head carried on bulbous recessed columns with
rusticated surrounds and high bases.
Central segmentally arched window with mullioned
and transomed oriel bay over. Balustraded parapet above and 3
round-arched upper windows. Outer first-floor windows, of 2
mullioned and transomed lights, have shallow pedimented heads
with egg-and-dart decoration.
Moulded terracotta architrave to lower left hand
window. Moulded string course and eaves band. Towers have
decorative terracotta panels and corbel table and bell-cast
tiled roofs and leaded turrets carried on bulbous balusters.
Central dormer in roof of 3-lights with pediment.
Wrought-iron balustrading forms ridge cresting.
Lower block adjoins to right, 2 bays, with coped gable and
segmentally arched 3-light window. Doorway to right with
terracotta moulding and pediment over.
Central segmentally arched window with mullioned
and transomed oriel bay over
Doorway to right with terracotta
scroll and
lettering over given name, "Telephone Buildings"
photos:
Steve Birks June 2008
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