Description

WOLVERHAMPTON

SO99NW CORN HILL
895-1/5/214 (East side)
Mill Street Depot

GV II

Railway goods depot, now offices and workshops. 1849-52 with
later alterations. For Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway and
London and North Western Railway. Brick with ashlar dressings;
felt roofs. 2-storey range has single-storey range under
double-span roof to east; basement under both. Bays
articulated by pilaster strips. 2-storey range has top
cornice, parapet, and coped gables; north elevation of 9 bays;
paired segmental-headed windows, now blocked, have cogged
impost bands; 2 round-headed entrances, also blocked; 1st
floor panels; 2 loading doors, now blocked; east end and south
elevation similar; south elevation has small late C19 and C20
additions; entrances have paired timber doors; some inserted
windows. Single-storey range has 9-bay north elevation; blind
round-headed arches have imposts and keystones;
elliptical-headed entrance to 4th bay now blocked; west end
has central entrance, now blocked with inserted door; flanking
blind arches and end entrances, that to left with sliding
door, that to right blocked with inserted window; south
elevation similar to north, but much altered; some bays have
inserted girders with C20 infill beneath; some inserted
windows. INTERIOR well-preserved: basement, originally bonded
store, has segmental arches to cross walls and raking
buttresses to side walls; 2-storey range has flanged round
iron columns; crane and 2 hydraulic ramps; 1st floor has
original partitioned office; iron roof trusses have diagonal
struts and tie bars; single-storey range has crane by lower
channel to north; round iron columns; timber roof trusses of
collar and tie beams with upper king posts; transverse beams
linking tie beams. A good and well-preserved example of an
early railway goods depot.
(Collins P: Notes on buildings of interest in Wolverhampton:
1990-).

Listing NGR: SO9218498743

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26497503

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
• 
  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
• 
  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)