Interior, 15 Tipping Street, Stafford

Description:The entrance hall of 15 Tipping Street, a Grade II listed building dating from around 1740-50. Originally it was a town house and previously had been known as ‘The Croft’.

This picture taken in 1963 shows the painted wood-panelling and wallpaper in the entrance hall on the ground floor at the front of the building. Until 1962 it was the home and surgery of Dr John Glover Hugo Frew who was living there by 1939. Dr Frew had been a Consulting Paediatrician at Stafford General Infirmary since 1940 and retired in 1963. The building was then re-purposed for various County Council offices.

Most of the adjacent buildings in Tipping Street were demolished in the 1970s during a major redevelopment of the area which was then used as a temporary car park until later when Staffordshire County Council built their headquarters, Staffordshire Place, on most of the site. Currently (2025) the building houses a photography studio, a hairdressing boutique and a psychic centre.