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Latitude: 52.5861 / 52°35'10"N
Longitude: -2.1227 / 2°7'21"W
OS Eastings: 391783
OS Northings: 298710
OS Grid: SO917987
Mapcode National: GBR 1FK.HB
Mapcode Global: WHBFZ.C8F7
Plus Code: 9C4VHVPG+FW
Entry Name: Queen's Building
Listing Date: 3 February 1977
Last Amended: 31 March 1992
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1279620
English Heritage Legacy ID: 378527
ID on this website: 101279620
Location: Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV1
County: City of Wolverhampton
Electoral Ward/Division: St Peter's
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Wolverhampton
Traditional County: Staffordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Midlands
Church of England Parish: Central Wolverhampton
Church of England Diocese: Lichfield
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WOLVERHAMPTON
SO9198NE PIPERS ROW
895-1/12/278 (East side)
03/02/77 Queen's Building
(Formerly Listed as:
HORSLEY FIELDS
(North side)
Former Railway Ticket Office)
GV II
Former entrance gateway to High Level Station, ticket offices
and board room; now Bus Station building. Opened 1st October,
1849; being refurbished at time of resurvey (1990). By Edward
Banks for Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway Company. Buff
brick with ashlar dressings; parapeted roof. 2 storeys; 6-bay
range, the 2 central bays wider. All but end bays articulated
by three-quarter columns; end quoins; ground floor has Doric
order with trigliph frieze, but end bays have stone panels to
brick frieze; 1st floor has Doric order but with Tuscan
entablature breaking forward over columns; attics to 2nd and
5th bays have angle pilasters. 2 round-arched carriage
entrances to central bays have tunnel vaults and angle
pilasters, archivolts and console-keystones, late C20 glazed
infill; flanking round-headed entrances have similar details;
end bays have round-headed openings with architraves,
spandrels, entablatures and pediments. 1st floor has
round-headed windows with panelled pilasters, archivolts with
console-keystones and C20 glazing, but end bays have windows
as to ground floor but without pediments. Attics have round
openings, one glazed, one with clock face. C20 single-storey
extensions to ends in similar style. Rear similar, but with
enriched capitals to 1st floor window pilasters. A reminder of
Wolverhampton's importance as a railway centre.
Listing NGR: SO9178398710
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