Listed buildings in Rugeley

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timber framed
. The rest of the listed buildings include a two public houses, a bridge, two boundary stones, and a water pumping station.


Key

Grade Criteria[1]
II* Particularly important buildings of more than special interest
II Buildings of national importance and special interest

Buildings

Name and location Photograph Date Notes Grade
Remains of Old St Augustine's Church
52°45′54″N 1°56′08″W / 52.76488°N 1.93544°W / 52.76488; -1.93544 (Remains of Old St Augustine's Church)
12th century What remains of the church is the west tower, the
embattled parapet.[2][3]
II
16 and 18 Horse Fair
52°45′28″N 1°56′10″W / 52.75773°N 1.93598°W / 52.75773; -1.93598 (16 and 18 Horse Fair)
Early 16th century (probable) A pair of houses in
moulded surrounds, and the windows are casements, those in the attic with gables breaking through the eaves.[4]
II
20 Horse Fair
52°45′27″N 1°56′09″W / 52.75761°N 1.93579°W / 52.75761; -1.93579 (20 Horse Fair)
Early 16th century (probable) The house is partly
moulded surround, the windows are casements, and there are two gabled dormers.[5]
II
The Stone House
52°45′24″N 1°57′28″W / 52.75658°N 1.95791°W / 52.75658; -1.95791 (The Stone House)
Early 16th century The house was much altered and extended in about 1800. It is in stone, and has two storeys, attics and a basement, a front of two gabled bays, and a later projecting gabled wing on the left. In the original part the windows are mullioned and transomed, in the later part they are replacements, and all have hood moulds. In the front is a gabled porch.[6][7] II
Red Lion Inn
52°45′41″N 1°56′03″W / 52.76138°N 1.93425°W / 52.76138; -1.93425 (Red Lion Inn)
c. 1600 The public house is
moulded surrounds, one with a pediment. The windows have segmental heads, and there are three gables dormers breaking through the eaves.[8]
II
32 and 34 Market Street
52°45′45″N 1°56′01″W / 52.76239°N 1.93353°W / 52.76239; -1.93353 (32 and 34 Market Street)
Late 16th or early 17th century A
timber framed house, later divided into two, partly roughcast and partly with plaster infill, and with a tile roof. There are two storeys and five bays. The windows are casement windows, and No. 34 has a doorway with a plain surround and a canted bay window.[9]
II
31 and 33 Market Square
52°45′37″N 1°56′07″W / 52.76036°N 1.93520°W / 52.76036; -1.93520 (31 and 33 Market Square)
17th century Most of the building dates from the 18th century. It is
moulded eaves, a panelled parapet, and a slate Mansard roof. There are two storeys and an attic, and three bays. The middle bay contains a doorway with Tuscan pilasters, a frieze with triglyphs, and a curved pediment. The left bay contains a bank front, and the right bay a 19th-century shop front. The windows are sashes with keyblocks, the window above the doorway having a moulded architrave, and there are two gabled dormers.[10]
II
Tomb of Elizabeth Cuting and Emma Hollinhurst
52°45′53″N 1°56′06″W / 52.76479°N 1.93507°W / 52.76479; -1.93507 (Tomb of Elizabeth Cuting and Emma Hollinhurst)
1696 The tomb is in the churchyard of the old St Augustine's Church. It is a table tomb in stone, and the slab is carved in semi-relief with two effigies in linen shrouds.[11] II
Garden wall, 22–30 Horse Fair
52°45′27″N 1°56′08″W / 52.75759°N 1.93556°W / 52.75759; -1.93556 (Garden wall, 22–30 Horse Fair)
18th century (probable) The wall running in front of the gardens is in plain ashlar stone.[12] II
9 Wolseley Road
52°45′50″N 1°56′11″W / 52.76395°N 1.93644°W / 52.76395; -1.93644 (9 Wolseley Road)
Late 18th century A red brick house with side
moulded surround and a curved voluted pediment, and the windows are sashes.[6][13]
II
Crossley Stone
52°45′37″N 1°56′16″W / 52.76025°N 1.93785°W / 52.76025; -1.93785 (Crossley Stone)
Late 18th century A red brick house on a corner site with end
moulded eaves, a blocking course, and a hipped tile roof. There are three storeys, four bays on Crossley Stone, and three on Bow Street. On both fronts is a doorway with a moulded surround, that on Crossley Stone with a curved voluted pediment. The windows are sashes with cambered heads.[14]
II
Chaseley
52°45′40″N 1°57′29″W / 52.76110°N 1.95795°W / 52.76110; -1.95795 (Chaseley)
c. 1780 Originally a
moulded band, a moulded eaves cornice, and a parapet. There are three storeys and four bays. On the front is a Tuscan porch with a frieze, a modillion cornice, and a pediment, and a doorway with a moulded surround. The windows are sashes in moulded architraves.[15]
II
Ornamental Bridge, Lakeside
52°45′32″N 1°56′39″W / 52.75899°N 1.94421°W / 52.75899; -1.94421 (Ornamental Bridge, Lakeside)
1790s The bridge crosses Rising Brook in the grounds of the house. It is in stone and consists of a single segmental arch with
balustrade and a cast iron handrail, and at the ends are four circular piers surmounted by vases, two of which are inscribed.[16]
II
Boundary stone on the north bank of Rising Brook
52°45′04″N 1°57′26″W / 52.75109°N 1.95710°W / 52.75109; -1.95710 (Boundary stone on the north bank of Rising Brook)
Late 18th to early 19th century The boundary stone has a rectangular plan and a rounded top, and it is roughly hewn.[17] II
Boundary stone on the south bank of Rising Brook
52°45′04″N 1°57′26″W / 52.75105°N 1.95710°W / 52.75105; -1.95710 (Boundary stone on the south bank of Rising Brook)
Late 18th to early 19th century The boundary stone has a rectangular plan and a rounded top. It is roughly hewn and there is a diagonal fissure on the west face.[18] II
Shrewsbury Arms Hotel and coach house
52°45′39″N 1°56′05″W / 52.76091°N 1.93459°W / 52.76091; -1.93459 (Shrewsbury Arms Hotel and coach house)
c. 1810 The public house, which may contain an earlier core, is
moulded cornice and a tile roof. There are two storeys and an attic, a main block of three bays, a later bay to the right, and a five-bay coach house with an archway on the left. In the centre of the main block is a projecting rusticated porch above which is a 19th-century inn sign. The windows are sashes, and there are three hip roofed dormers. The bay to the right contains a two-storey canted bay window and a sash window in the attic.[19]
II
St Augustine's Church
52°45′52″N 1°56′04″W / 52.76437°N 1.93431°W / 52.76437; -1.93431 (St Augustine's Church)
1822–23 The east end of the church was extended in about 1904. The church is built in stone with
embattled parapet. The east window has five lights and a crocketed ogee hood mould.[6][20]
II*
Grotto
52°45′34″N 1°56′33″W / 52.75938°N 1.94254°W / 52.75938; -1.94254 (Grotto)
Early 19th century The grotto consists of a number of connected underground chambers carved out of natural red sandstone bedrock. It is entered through a roughcast portal, which leads to a rotunda with a colonnade of six Tuscan columns carrying an entablature and a dome, and through more chambers to a basilica containing a nave with an apse and aisles.[21] II
2 and 4 Church Street
52°45′50″N 1°56′13″W / 52.76396°N 1.93700°W / 52.76396; -1.93700 (2 and 4 Church Street)
Early 19th century Two houses at the end of a terrace in red brick with a
moulded surround and a rectangular fanlight. The windows are sashes with cornice hoods, some of them blocked, and at the left is a passageway.[22]
II
17 Lower Brook Street
52°45′35″N 1°56′08″W / 52.75973°N 1.93563°W / 52.75973; -1.93563 (17 Lower Brook Street)
Early 19th century A II
19 Lower Brook Street
52°45′36″N 1°56′08″W / 52.75987°N 1.93560°W / 52.75987; -1.93560 (19 Lower Brook Street)
Early 19th century A stuccoed shop with side and intermediate pilasters in the upper storeys and a parapet. There are three storeys and five bays. The windows are sashes, and in the ground floor is a modern shop front.[24] II
Brook House
52°45′34″N 1°56′06″W / 52.75951°N 1.93500°W / 52.75951; -1.93500 (Brook House)
Early 19th century A red brick house with plain
lintels.[25]
II
32 Talbot Street
52°45′28″N 1°55′58″W / 52.75779°N 1.93268°W / 52.75779; -1.93268 (32 Talbot Street)
Early to mid 19th century A
moulded cornice on paired consoles over the middle floor, and a tile roof. There are three storeys and three bays, the left bay recessed. The doorway in the left bay has a moulded surround, a semicircular head and a fanlight, and the windows are sashes in moulded architraves, those in the ground floor with semicircular heads.[26]
II
Church of St Joseph and St Etheldreda
52°45′32″N 1°55′59″W / 52.75889°N 1.93306°W / 52.75889; -1.93306 (Church of St Joseph and St Etheldreda)
1849–50 A
weathercock.[6][27]
II
Vicarage
52°45′48″N 1°56′18″W / 52.76333°N 1.93824°W / 52.76333; -1.93824 (Vicarage)
c. 1850 The vicarage is in red brick, and has two storeys, four
embattled parapet on the right. The second bay projects and is gabled, and the windows are sashes. The doorway has a stuccoed surround, a rectangular fanlight, and a cornice hood on consoles.[28]
II
Lloyds Bank
52°45′36″N 1°56′09″W / 52.75995°N 1.93583°W / 52.75995; -1.93583 (Lloyds Bank)
Mid 19th century The building is
moulded bands, a modillion eaves cornice, and a tile roof. The building has two storeys and eight bays. There are two doorways with moulded pilasters, one with a cornice hood on consoles, and the other with a semicircular head and a fanlight. The windows are sashes, and at the right end is an arched cover-way with a rusticated surround.[29]
II
Brindley Bank Pumping Station
52°46′23″N 1°56′42″W / 52.77297°N 1.94507°W / 52.77297; -1.94507 (Brindley Bank Pumping Station)
1902–07 The water pumping station is in brick with
Tudor arched doorway and a hood mould incorporating a dated panel. The ground floor windows are mullioned and transomed, in the upper floor three of the bays contain four-light windows, and the others have diamond panels. At the top are three smaller gables containing slit windows, and all the gables have finials.[30]
II*
Churchyard Cross
52°45′53″N 1°56′08″W / 52.76469°N 1.93559°W / 52.76469; -1.93559 (Churchyard Cross)
Undated The cross is in the churchyard of the old St Augustine's Church, it is in stone and consists of a plain shaft on a base and a step. At one corner of the base is a hollowed-out kneeling place.[31] II
Churchyard walls, piers and gates, St Augustine's Church
52°45′52″N 1°56′05″W / 52.76438°N 1.93485°W / 52.76438; -1.93485 (Churchyard walls, piers and gates, St Augustine's Church)
Undated A low stone wall with rounded copings runs along the west and south sides of the churchyard. At the entrance to the churchyard are four stone piers, a pair of wrought iron gates, and smaller gates flanking them.[32] II
Graveyard wall, Old St Augustine's Church
52°45′52″N 1°56′06″W / 52.76457°N 1.93487°W / 52.76457; -1.93487 (Graveyard wall, Old St Augustine's Church)
Undated A low stone wall running along the east side of the churchyard of the old St Augustine's Church.[33] II

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