Dunstall is a civil parish in the district of East Staffordshire, Staffordshire, England. It contains 13 buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, two are listed at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish contains the village of Dunstall and the surrounding countryside. The Trent and Mersey Canal passes through the eastern part of the parish and associated with this are a roving bridge and a milepost, and there is also a listed milepost nearby on the A38 road. The other listed buildings include a country house and associated structures, a smaller house, farmhouses and farm buildings, a church, and a former school.
A farmhouse in red brick with a hippedslate roof. There is a double-depth rectangular plan, three storeys, a front of three bays, and sides of two bays. The central doorway has half-round pilasters and an open pediment, and the windows are sashes.[2]
The milepost is on the towpath of the Trent and Mersey Canal. It is in cast iron, and consists of a circular post with a moulded head and two convex tablets. On the tablets are inscribed the distances in miles to Shardlow and to Preston Brook, and the date and details of the maker are on the shaft.[3]
A roving bridge over the Trent and Mersey Canal. It is in red brick with dressings in blue brick, and stone coping. The bridge consists of a single segmental arch with convex sides, and the parapet is swept over the span.[4]
A country house that was extended later in the 19th century, it is built in stone, and has a cornice, a balustradedparapet, and a flat roof. There is an L-shaped plan; the garden front on the east has two storeys and ten bays, the middle four bays recessed. The entrance front at the south has a tetrastyleporte-cochère with Ionic columns and a fretted parapet. Above this a frieze, a pediment, and an attic tower, to the right is one bay, to the left are two bays, and further to the left is a seven-bay ballroom wing. The windows are sashes. To the north of the garden front is a seven-bay orangery with semicircular-headed windows.[5][6]
A red brick farmhouse with dentilledeaves and a tile roof. There are two storeys and an attic, and a rectangular plan with a front of three bays. The central doorway has flat pilasters, a fanlight and a hood, and the windows are sashes with painted wedge heads.[8]
The farmhouse is in red brick with a hippedslate roof. There are two storeys, and a T-shaped plan with a front of three bays and a rear wing. In the centre is a porch with angle pilasters and a hipped roof, and above the door is a fanlight. On the front the windows are sashes, and in the rear wing they are top-hung casements.[9]
The farm buildings to the east of the farmhouse include stables and a hayloft, cow houses, implement sheds, and a horse engine house. They are in red brick and have hipped tile roofs, other than a shed with a slate roof. The whole complex forms an irregular H-shaped plan, the horse engine house having an apsidal plan. The openings include stable doors, hayloft doors, a cart door, and pitching holes.[10]
The shed is in red brick with a hipped tile roof. There is one storey and seven bays. The front is open with two steel and three cast iron columns.[11]
The milepost is on the east side of the A38 road. It is in cast iron and has a triangular plan and a sloping top. On the top is the name of the parish, and below are the distances to Alrewas, Lichfield, and Burton upon Trent.[12]
The school, later used for other purposes, was designed by Henry Clutton. It is in Hollingtonsandstone, and has a tile roof with verge parapets. The building consists of a schoolroom with an attached lean-to range. Most of the windows are mullionedcasements, the window in the south gable end has five lights and is mullioned and transomed, and there is a hippeddormer.[5][13]
The buildings are in red brick with stone dressings, quoins and tile roofs with coped verges. On the front is a carriage arch with buttresses and a pointed arch, over which is a mullioned window and a plaque in a gable. The house to the right has two storeys, three bays, a doorway with a fanlight and mullioned casement windows. The farm building to the left has four two-light mullioned windows and quatrefoil vents, and at the end a gable with a two-light trefoil-headed window. There are two wings at the rear.[16]
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