Favourite or best looking buildings in Stafford.

homes and lines

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Lovely!
Jackson's County Fruit, Mill Street.

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Withnail

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It's a great shop as well as a beautiful one.

If you are looking for something, ingredients wise, a bit out of the ordinary and have drawn a blank elsewhere, go there first next time.
 

homes and lines

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Having had the chance to take a picture of this building from an angle that's not my usual street view, I took it, here's Hand Morgan and Owen solicitors on Martin Street.

One of my favourite streets, in Stafford.

Look at the colour of that front door, lovely!

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Gramaisc

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Does anyone have any further information on the history of this building?

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I think it was the Stafford Tool and Die factory.

Making production equipment for the shoe factories.

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I do remember the ground floor being a gym at one point.
 

Gramaisc

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I think it was the Stafford Tool and Die factory.

Making production equipment for the shoe factories.

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I do remember the ground floor being a gym at one point.
OK, made suspicious by the roof structure, that seems to have been (mostly) the lower buildings further in.

The block on the corner was Frederick Riley's Gainsborough works, opened in 1892.

Riley's closed in 1942 and the Tool & Die factory did actually occupy the building from 1962 to 2004.
 

Cue

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What ever it was, in it's previous life, with a little spruce up, this could be brought back to its former glory.

Lovely big building tucked-away, on St. Patrick's Place.

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If the old box factory is anything to go by, a spruce up would be missing some bare essentials and not been terribly well thought out. Lots of flare in the apartments - they had a whole lighting control system in the apartments, massive open spaces, range cooker, etc...

But then the rooms downstairs (intended to be bedrooms) had single glazed windows with old metal framing right at ground level with the path outside so anyone walking past could take a peak if there was a gap in your curtain, and of course that’s not gonna be very warm in the winter at all.

Nice overall, but missing some pretty important aspects presumably somewhat due to the BS that is the listed buildings register. We did consider renting one there but didn’t because of the above and the lack of fibre connectivity. It’s a shame because they are really nice and were a bit different but they just completely missed the mark on some stuff. Granted some of the apartments are probably better than others, the one we looked at had a great upstairs but disappointing downstairs.
 
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Zylo

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Pennycroft flats

it's close between that and the keep in highfields
 
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