Description

WOLVERHAMPTON

SO89NE PENN ROAD, Penn
895-1/4/94 (South side)
04/11/91 Penn Hospital, former Childrens'
Hospital

II

House, hospital in C20, vacant at time of resurvey (1990).
c1770 with later alterations and additions. Brick with ashlar
dressings; slate roofs with truncated brick end stacks. 3
storeys; symmetrical 5-window range with 2-storey, 2-window,
range to left. Top friezes and cornices; coped gables. Ground
floor has 2 mid C19 canted plastered bay windows with high
parapets and horned sashes;1st floor has windows with
rusticated wedge lintels and fluted keys over 12-pane horned
sashes; 2nd floor casement windows; range to left has windows
with rusticated wedge lintels and fluted keys over large mid
C19 four-pane horned sashes to ground floor, 12-pane horned
sashes to 1st floor. Round-headed entrance has aedicule with
panelled pilasters with rosettes to entablature blocks and
open pediment; panelled door. Left return has C20 bow window
with balcony above; right return has canted bay window with
hipped tile roof. Rear has wing conecting with late C20 old
people's hospital. INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: SO8930495698

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26502820

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Recommended Books

• 
  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)