Description

STONE

SJ8933 CROWN STREET, Stone
651-1/6/18 (South side (off))
27/07/72 Trent Hospital (Main block)

GV II

Workhouse, now hospital. 1792-3; 2nd storey added 1838-9, by
Boulton and Palmer of Stafford; later C19 additions. H-plan.
Georgian style. Brick with plaster and ashlar dressings; slate
M-roof, hipped to wings, with brick stacks. 2 storeys;
5-window range with 3-storey cross wings. Platt bands to wings
over 1st floor; top modillioned brick friezes and ashlar
cornices. Central entrance has plaster surround and cornice,
C20 glazed doors, sidelights and C20 glazed timber porch;
segmental-headed entrances to inner returns of wings. Windows
have sills, plaster surrounds and simple cornices, most with
4-pane horned sashes, but central 1st floor tripartite window
with plaster apron panel and small-paned iron glazing, similar
windows to wings, that to ground floor of right wing has
inserted French window, those to 1st floors have central
4-pane horned sashes; 2nd floor of wings have triple
round-headed lights with small-paned glazing. Axial stack and
return lateral stacks. Tower to right return has angle
pilasters and top frieze, paired round-headed lights, those to
top louvred. Right return has iron glazing to 2nd floor
windows; C19 2-storey wings project to front and rear. Rear is
similar; windows have segmental lintels and varied sashes and
iron glazing, central bow window with 12-pane sashes; 2-window
addition to right end.
INTERIOR altered, some exposed beams. The original design was
copied from that of the Romford Workhouse of 1787.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire: London:
1974-: 269).

Listing NGR: SJ8998733809

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26491250

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Recommended Books

• 
  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)