Description

WOLVERHAMPTON

SO9198NE WEDNESFIELD ROAD 895-1/12/351 (South side) Broad Street Warehouse

GV II

Canal warehouse by branch of Birmingham Canal Navigation. 1869-71. For Shropshire Union Canal and Railways Co. Brick with blue brick and ashlar dressings; double-span slate roof with brick stacks. L-plan. 2 storeys. Tall panels and top brick cornice; cart entrance to left has girder under brick relieving arch; return segmental-headed loading door; 2 gables to right end have roundels with grilles; 3 boarded windows have ashlar lintels and brick relieving arches; left end stack and 2 lateral stacks, truncated. Right return has 2 boarded windows, originally with sashes; rear has 2 gables to wing; girder to boat hole to left under relieving arch; small lean-to addition to left and segmental-headed window with small-paned casement to right; right end has windows with 4-pane sashes. INTERIOR is well-preserved: round iron columns support girders; crane to side of boat hole; 1st floor has round iron columns supporting timber beams and tie beam trusses; some hoisting gear.

Listing NGR: SO9182798958

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)