Description

WOLVERHAMPTON

SO9198NW QUEEN SQUARE 895-1/11/284 (North side) 16/07/49 Nos.43 AND 44

GV II

House, now shop and office. Dated 1726 on rainwater head; mid/late C16 rear wing. Brick with stucco dressings and hipped tile roof with brick stacks; rear wing timber-framed with brick ground floor. Early Georgian style. 3 storeys; symmetrical 5-window range. Top modillioned cornice and end quoin strips. Windows have brick segmental arches with fielded-panelled keystones overlate C19 horned sashes, those to 2nd floor of 4 panes. Attic has gabled dormer window. C20 shop front to ground floor. Large cross-axial stack. Plain rainwater head and square downpipe; tile street name to 5th bay. Right return to Lich Gates similar, of 8 bays; quoin strip to right of 5th bay, windows to right higher. Shop front continued to 1st 5 bays, then 2 flat-arched windows and blocked entrance; gabled dormer window to attic and cross-axial stack. Rainwater head has monogram, crest and date: 1726, square downpipe; tile street name. North end of west elevation off Exchange Street has C16 timber-framed gabled bay with brick underbuilding to ground floor and jettied gable on enriched brackets; C20 casement windows have leaded glazing. INTERIOR of rear wing has chamfered beams and jointed cruck trusses.

Listing NGR: SO9141198724

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