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Latitude: 52.568 / 52°34'4"N
Longitude: -2.0734 / 2°4'24"W
OS Eastings: 395123
OS Northings: 296684
OS Grid: SO951966
Mapcode National: GBR 1SR.8V
Mapcode Global: WHBG0.3QY6
Plus Code: 9C4VHW9G+5M
Entry Name: Prospect House
Listing Date: 31 March 1995
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1282476
English Heritage Legacy ID: 378496
ID on this website: 101282476
Location: Green Lanes, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV14
County: City of Wolverhampton
Electoral Ward/Division: Bilston East
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Bilston
Traditional County: Staffordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Midlands
Church of England Parish: Bilston St Leonard
Church of England Diocese: Lichfield
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WOLVERHAMPTON
SO9596 MOUNT PLEASANT, Bilston
895-1/15/21 (North West side)
No.34
Prospect House
II
Office of Wolverhampton District Electric Tramways Ltd, now
office. 1902. Brick with terracotta dressings; parapetted
roof. Right-angle plan. 2 storeys, gable facing. Plinth; brick
frieze and dentilled terracotta cornice over ground floor; top
terracotta frieze, cornice and terracotta-coped brick ramped
parapet and gable with keyed roundel; rusticated end pilasters
with scroll tops. Windows have rusticated jambs and sashes
with small-paned upper sashes; ground floor has
segmental-headed window with imposts and keystone; 1st floor
has tripartite window; segmental-headed entrance has
rusticated jambs and brick rusticated cambered arch, overlight
and 6-panel door; frieze over ground floor has panel with
initials: WDET and wheel within magnet. Right return similar;
entrance and 1st floor tripartite window and flanking windows.
Wolverhampton District Tramways Ltd electrified the existing
horse tramway routes in the area; the site comprised the
offices, a transformer station (the existing but much altered
building to the left), and the repair and paint shops,
(demolished). The depot was converted for the use of trolley
buses, 1928-30, and closed, 1965.
(Collins P: Notes on buildings of interest in Wolverhampton:
1990-).
Listing NGR: SO9512396684
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