Description

SJ 6634-6734
13/93
7.5.52

MARKET DRAYTON C.P.
STAFFORD STREET
(south-east side)
Brooklyn House (formerly listed as No 70 Stafford Street)

GV
II

House, now also doctor's surgery. Mid-to late C18. Red brick (right-
hand gable end rendered) with 2-span plain tile roof. Double-depth
plan. 2 storeys and gable-lit attic. Plat band and dentil brick
eaves cornice. Pair of brick ridge stacks, off-centre to left and
right and rear range with brick end stacks (that to left external).
4 + 1 bays; glazing bar sashes with painted stone cills and rusticated
painted stone lintels with raised keystone. First-floor sashes and
2 ground-floor sashes with exposed boxes and 2 ground-floor sashes
flanking doorway cut down, probably in early C19. Left-hand ground-
floor sash painted in imitation. Doorway in second bay from left with
pair of 3-panelled doors, fanlight with intersecting Gothick tracery
and wooden doorcase consisting of reveals with chamfered rustications,
moulded impost band, moulded architrave and pair of plain flanking
pilasters with shaped brackets above supporting open triangular pediment.
Fire insurance plate between second and third first-floor windows
from left (No. 70014). Remains of former railed enclosures in front
of house (see stone plinth), now only 2 short segments flanking doorway
survive with plain railings and standards with urn finials. Left-hand gable
end: 2 plat bands. One bay. Ground-and first-floor 4-pane sashes and
attic oculus. Right-hand gable end with first-floor and attic glazing
bar sashes and ground-floor half-glazed door with inserted window to right.
Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ6789734369

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26471723

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Recommended Books

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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)