FORMER UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON ANNEXE

FORMER UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON ANNEXE, LICHFIELD STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1025080
Date first listed:: 12-Feb-1975
List Entry Name:: FORMER UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON ANNEXE
Statutory Address:: FORMER UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON ANNEXE, LICHFIELD STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1025080
Date first listed:: 12-Feb-1975
Date of most recent amendment:: 31-Mar-1992
List Entry Name:: FORMER UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON ANNEXE
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON ANNEXE, LICHFIELD STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: FORMER UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON ANNEXE, LICHFIELD STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: City of Wolverhampton (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SO 91629 98752

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 19/03/2013

SO9198NE 895-1/12/265 12/02/75

WOLVERHAMPTON LICHFIELD STREET (South side) Former University of Wolverhampton Annexe

(Formerly Listed as Head Post Office, and Wolverhampton Polytechnic Annexe at date of most recent amendment)

GV II

Shown on O.S. map as Head Post Office. Former post office, later part of the University of Wolverhampton (Polytechnic at date of listing). 1895. Dark red brick with yellow terracotta dressings and slate roof. Northern Renaissance style. Symmetrical composition of 2 storeys and 13 bays; 2nd to 4th bays project under Dutch gable, as do 10th to 12th bays; central entrance bay breaks forward. Terracotta plinth, sill courses and flush bands, cornice to ground floor and top entablature with balustraded parapet. Projecting bays have round-headed windows with panelled pilasters and archivolts with keys and flanking windows with architraves, top festooned panels and segmental pediments, similar architraved window to 13th bay; central bays have similar round-headed windows paired with enriched spandrels to ground floor; 1st floor cross-mullioned 2-light windows with pilasters, friezes and cornices, those to central and projecting bays framed by Ionic pilastrades with plinths and festooned friezes. Paired round-headed attic lights to gables, with fluted colonnetes and flanking pilasters, panelled friezes, cartouches to pediments; 1st bay has flat-topped dormer. Central entrance has porch with Corinthian half-columns, enriched frieze and cornice, parapet with enriched date panel under consoled pediment with cartouche, flanking lions hold Royal arms. Entrance to 1st bay has architrave, overlight and consoled triangular pediment. Parapet has central panel with Royal arms and shell pediment; octagonal cupola with round-arched openings; banded stacks. Similar detached right return to Princess St; plain rear elevation with open-fronted bays. INTERIOR: altered; main hall has Ionic pilasters.

Listing NGR: SO9161898753

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Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.