Latitude: 52.9022 / 52°54'7"N
Longitude: -2.1472 / 2°8'50"W
OS Eastings: 390192
OS Northings: 333868
OS Grid: SJ901338
Mapcode National: GBR 15Q.3XS
Mapcode Global: WHBDD.Z9NZ
Plus Code: 9C4VWV23+V4
Entry Name: Crown Hotel
Listing Date: 9 March 1949
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1196742
English Heritage Legacy ID: 386003
ID on this website: 101196742
Location: Stone, Stafford, Staffordshire, ST15
County: Staffordshire
District: Stafford
Civil Parish: Stone
Built-Up Area: Stone
Traditional County: Staffordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Staffordshire
Church of England Parish: Stone St Michael and St Wulfad
Church of England Diocese: Lichfield
Tagged with: Hotel
STONE
SJ9033 HIGH STREET, Stone 651-1/7/31 (South West side) 09/03/49 No.38 Crown Hotel
GV II*
Hotel. 1778. By Henry Holland. Brick with ashlar dressings; brick end stacks. Double-depth plan. Georgian style. 3 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range; ends bowed. Platt band over ground floor; top cornice. Entrance has Ionic porch with flagpole supporting scrolled wrought-iron bracket above, overlight and paired half-glazed doors; flanking lanterns. Windows have sills and rubbed brick flat arches, those to ground floor with 8:12:8-pane tripartite sashes; similar sashes to 1st floor flank window with 12-pane sash in round-headed recess; 2nd floor has 6-pane sashes. Right return has 2-storey C19 rear wing which projects with bowed re-entrant with 20-pane sash; windows mostly casements, segmental-headed windows to 1st floor; right end has late C19 shop front with panelled pilasters and blocked entrance; extensive C20 additions. INTERIOR has c1900 fittings: open well stair with splat balusters, panelling and 2 timber fireplaces. The hotel was important as a staging post for coaches on the London-Holyhead and London-Carlisle routes and served as a mail distribution point. A room at the hotel was used by the Blessed Dominic Barberi for the 1st Catholic Mass in Stone since the Reformation, 1842, the start of the Catholic revival in Stone. (Wilson A CP: Dominic Barberi Blessed CP: London: 1967-: 247-8; Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire: London: 1974-: 269).
Listing NGR: SJ9019233868
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